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It's been almost 2 years since Denji killed Makima and ate her; after that, he was stuck with watching over Makima's incarnation, Nayuta, she wasn't bad and didn't seem to have any ill-well against the blonde, so they got along quickly. Denji cooks her food, takes her to school, and even plays with her whenever he has the time. 

Denji picked up cooking as a hobby since he was the only one who could work an oven and microwave; he got somewhat good at cooking, he was able to fry fish, steaks, and if he didn't forget to get the ingredients, some burgers. He did feel sick eating meat for a bit when he ate Makima, but after a few months, he got over it. He was happy, satisfied even, but yet when he thought about Aki or power...His 'normal' life felt empty. 

Living with Nayuta was somehow similar to and completely different than it was living with Aki and Power. She was like a weird hybrid of Aki's calm and Power's chaotic personalities mixed with a hit of Makima's coldness and possessiveness. At first, taking care of Nayuta was like a job that Denji didn't get paid for, but slowly he grew to like Nayuta...How he feels toward Nayuta reminds him of how he felt toward Aki and Power. Denji made sure to treat Nayuta like any normal kid, even though she could become the next Makima, and that scared the blonde. 

But he remembers Pochita's words, "Give her lots of hugs." So, Denji made sure to give Nayuta the love and attention a normal kid should have, what he should've had when he was growing up...   

Fighting devils was still Denji's job, but now he has to deal with school; which took most of his time but he didn't complain about it, those fights kept his mind busy, and the school gave him so order in his mess of a life, but it still has its downsides: The school has been, for a lack of a better word, hell for Denji, he didn't get laid or even a girlfriend, he still tries though. Denji wasn't good at anything, math bored him so he always fell asleep in class, he could barely read so anything that required reading was out the window, the fancy words in science class confused him, and lastly, the dates and names in history class were either too big for him to remember. The teachers didn't like Denji that much, that was mostly due to him almost always either sleeping or making a fool of himself in class. During his first year, the teachers wanted to hold Denji back so he would learn something, but that idea was killed when they saw him not taking anything seriously.

But there were upsides, one of which was selling cigarettes; Denji always wanted to make money, so he could paid for Nayuta's education. The blonde couldn't care less about the school, the only reason he went in the first place, was when he thought it would get him a girlfriend, there were some pretty girls in the school but they didn't want to talk to him. That was mostly due to his behavior around them, he always tried to ask a girl out. But now he just goes due to the money he's making off of high schoolers buying cigarettes.  

Kishibe still kept in contact with Denji, mostly to ask about Nayuta, but sometimes he asked about how the blonde felt, but he always got the same answer, "I'm doin' fine." The older man could tell that Denji was lying, but he couldn't bring himself to ask why. 

There was something off with Denji lately, he didn't try to ask every girl out in his school, he didn't have the same smile, and he felt tired even more than usual. He doesn't know what's wrong with him, he blames it on being overworked. But there is a weird feeling in his chest. He blames it on being sick.  

Nayuta wasn't dumb, she could tell something was making Denji different, he looked way more tired and all most sickly, so she always tried her best to help him anywhere she could: This was mostly helping him with cooking, cleaning, and studying, which was mostly him helping her with math.

Nayuta also knows that Denji is risking his life every day fighting devils, so he can get a girlfriend, she hates the idea of someone taking Denji away from her, so she starts to look for a job that he'll be good at, but sadly there were just a few. Cutting trees was out of the picture in Nayuta's mind, this was due to the story Denji would tell her about himself, how he cut trees so he could have enough money to pay for his debt. Denji could hardly read, thus a desk job was out too. She gives some thought to a banker or someone who just courts money, but then she quickly throws the thought away due to Denji's lack of degree. The more Nayuta thought about it, the more clear it became that Denji was like the perfect devil hunter. He didn't have any other choice, being in debt, or being ripped off in other work fields (those that didn't require any kind of reading), it made sense why Denji picked killing devils.

It was close to Denji’s 19th birthday, so Nayuta bought Denji two gifts, as a way of saying 'thank you', a pair of earphones and a phone. She thought he'd use it to try to get a girl's number, but was shocked to see him use it sparingly, only using it to listen to music. At first, Denji listened to what was popular, mostly hip-hop and pop, but he started to listen to more kinds of music; punk, jazz, metal, and alternative music. What songs he was listening to were almost always brought up in their conversation, it seems that music was one of the few ways Denji seemed happy again.

They ate cake for the first time, and Denji cried a lot.

"Heya Nayuta, how was school today?" Denji asks, he's at the front gates of Nayuta's school. When Nayuta saw him, she rushed to him.

"It was the same as yesterday," Nayuta responded in a low tone voice, "The teacher picked me to answer a question on the board, it was the same one we did last night, so it was super duper easy!" Denji chuckled at Nayuta.

"Can you walk da way back, to home?" Nayuta shakes her head 'no', and with a sigh, Denji bends down on one knee so she can get on his back. He was used to this now, asking Nayuta how her day was, carrying her on his back home, making dinner, lunch, and breakfast, cleaning the dishes, killing devils, and missing.....

When Denji arrived home the sun was setting, he opened the front door and then was surrounded by a horde of big furry beasts known as dogs. With some quick moves, he was able to dodge the wave of dogs that jumped towards him. Denji walks into the house, his and Naruto's home, it's a small apartment; only having one bedroom, one bathroom, a small kitchen, and a smaller living room.  Denji lays Nayuta down on the couch and goes to the kitchen, where he starts to cook. Tonight he's cooking some fried fish, rice, and some corn, it took him an hour to fully cook all of it.

Nayuta woke from her nap and went to the kitchen to watch Denji cook, it was fun for her to see what mistakes he made while cooking, this time he burnt the corn. 

"Da food is goin' to be done in a sec," Denji says with a smile, "it's goin' blow your fuckin' mind." Denji's confidence was high, and Nayuta just smiled. It was rare to see Denji this excited anymore.

Turns out Denji can cook fish well, but can't cook rice... despite how long he's been cooking. The fish was almost perfect, and while the rice was just a mush of flavorless, Nayuta still ate it anyway, because Denji cooked it and she likes Denji so anything he makes she'll like.

"Da corn needs some work, but it's eatable so it's fine for now." Denji cleans his plate in just a few seconds. while Nayuta was only halfway done with hers. "What's yer thought on it?" Denji asked with his mouth full of the last pieces of rice.

"The fish is perfect, the corn was burnt but eatable, and the rice....was warm." Nayuta didn't want to hurt Denji's feelings with the rice, but he knew what she meant by "warm". They have their little codewords, something as little as the word warm could mean a bunch in their code, they didn't even try to make it.....It just happened after talking to each other for so long.

"I'll work on da rice too." Denji didn't seem to be bothered by it. Nayuta finished her plate and pushed it towards Denji's, he picked both up and walked to the sink. "Wanna help me?" Nayuta nodded her head and moved next to Denji, they both began to wash the dishes.

Denji's hands washed the plate while Nayuta dried them with a rag, "I wish we didn't have to wash da dishes so much if Aki-''

Tears started to form in Denji's eyes, but he kept going until the last plate was done.  Nayuta looked up at Denji, seeing tears in the blond's eyes, "Why are you crying Denji?" Warping away his tears Denji answers.

"Just a thought came into my head," Denji's tears stopped, "rememberin' an ol' friend of mine."  Nayuta did the only thing she thought would help Denji, she hugged him, one of the longest hugs she could have given him.  They were in that hug for what felt like years until Denji finally said something, "I'm going to hit the hay." Nayuta didn't wanna let go but she did.

"Okay, I'll go too then." With that, they both went to bed and fell asleep in each other's arms.

"If only I had another shot, then I could save them." Denji felt something wrong in his chest...

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This was one hell of a dream Denji is having. Here's what happened thus far: He woke up in a dumpster, saw that he was in the warehouse where he fought the zombie devil, and saw the horde of undead yakuza members.

"Tis 's a wild dream might as well  enjoy it as most as possible." Denji was ready, more than that even, this was just a dream, he pulled the wire from his chest and turned into Chainsaw man. It hurt, it hurt a lot, "maybe coz I know what it feels like in da real world, so it feels the same in tis dream....that's kinda cool" Denji quickly realized that the horde of the undead was dog-piling onto him. "He'S StiLl ALIVE After GettING CUt TO piEcES?! GROSS! I REALLY HATE DEVIL HUNTERS!" The Zombie devil was screaming in his annoying voice. Denji didn't wanna waste time, so he jumped and stabbed his chain into the devil's eye. "SHUT THE FUCK UP! EVEN IN MY DREAM YA SHITTY VOICE STILL HURTS MY HEAD!" Denji almost forgot how annoying this devil's voice was, but of course, it was so high-pitched that it still haunted his dream. Denji quickly cut the Zombie Devil in half, and now was of the much more fun and less annoying part--killing all the fuckers who made his life hell. "Tis da second time I get to kill all of you fuckers, TIS HAS TO BE ONE OF DA BEST DREAM I EVER HAD IN A LONG TIME!"

Denji took his sweet time enjoying every kill he did, cutting their lambs off first and then doing the final blow to kill them. Denji lost himself in the pure joy of carelessness, he didn't have to worry about anything outside of this dream. His brain was full of dopamine, cutting in random directions, smiling and laughing at each kill he made. Denji felt like there were hundreds of zombies, he lost count of how many he killed, and yet he didn't feel tired, as if each kill gave him more energy, so he kept cutting, and cutting, and cutting, and cutting, and cutting, and cutting...And then he was hit hard by a mental pipe that a zombie was holding, it hurt but it wasn't the first time he felt that strangely particular feeling of getting hit with a pipe, Denji quickly cut the zombie into small pieces but a thought came into his mind, "How the fuck can I feel pain in a dream?" Denji couldn't think of an answer to the question while fighting a horde of zombies, so his brain came up with "probably cause I felt it in real life so much, so in my dream, it feels the same." Denji just went with it. The fight lasted all night and early morning. Denji was tried, he didn't know how he could get tried in a dream but he did, and all the zombies were killed. Cover in blood, Denji  collapsed onto the cold concrete floor, "Tis was a wild dream." Denji thought with a small smile on his face...But he didn't wake up from this dream, and that didn't stop him from falling asleep.

A car pulled up, and three people stepped out. Two were men wearing a suit and ties, while the other was a girl with light red hair. They walked into the warehouse, "Someone beat us to it." One of the men said. After looking at the mountain of dead bodies they slowly looked around, there were hundreds of bodies cut up, and guts, and blood were spread around the place. After a glance, they saw a boy lying down in front of the mountain of corpses, covered in blood, they saw Denji. The girl quickly walked towards the down Denji. After a quick look, the girl finds Denji asleep, after a few seconds Denji begins to mumble to himself, and she leans her ear close to his mouth.

"I don't wanna any more bread..". Denji said in a whisper, the girl put his head on her lap, watching him sleep quietly.

Denji felt the softness of his pillow, after a yawn, he sat up and stretched his arms. "Da was one hell of a dream, I think I overslept...Shit Nayuta 's goin' be mad at me!" Denji quickly looked around and saw there was something off...When did they start to live in a warehouse with a huge pile of bodies? Denji tried to get up from the floor but quickly fell back down, his body hurt...It hurts a lot. "Damn tis legs, com on work." Denji started to hit his legs.

"I don't think it's wise to be hitting your legs like that." Denji stopped, that voice sounds like...Makima, "What the hell kinda dream is this?!" Denji wanted to wake himself up from this dream.

"You have an odd smell, it isn't devil or human."  Makima looked at Denji, her eyes filled with curiosity, "Did you do this?" Denji looked at her scared, "Wait...This is still a dream." Denji was about to say something but his stomach growled in pain. "Any chance it's a devil's possession?" One of the men asked, Makima answered "None. You can see possession on their faces." Makima looked back at Denji, "I came here to kill the Zombie Devil. I'm a public safety devil hunter." Makima walked over and sat in front of Denji, she put his head on her lap. "You have tw-" Denji growls louder than last time, "Oh are you hungry?" Denji nods, "Okay well, we haven't eaten either so why don't you join us?" Denji just nodded his head slowly. 

The four of them are now in a car, the two men are in the front seats, while Makima and Denji are in the back.

"Sorry, but I don't have any cash on me." Denji leaned into his seat,

"Just have what you want. I'll cover it." Makima looked over at Denji, he stared blankly out the window, "Yup like how I remember it".

"Here take my coat, you'll look weird half-naked." Makima took off her coat and handed it to Denji, "Thanks." Denji put on the coat, and it fit onto him well enough to cover his chest. "You have-'' Makima looked at Denji and saw that he was asleep, "Oh I'll let you rest then," Makima whispered. After a few minutes of silence the car stopped, Denji woke up and saw a small building.

Something came up into Denji's mind, "Hey can you git me an Undon, n' a corndog?"

Makima looked at him with an odd look in her eyes, "I thought you were coming with me."

Denji looked at the forest ahead of him, "I got to take a piss, giv' me a few secs 'kay?"

Makima didn't back down, "There's a bathroom here-"

But before she could finish her sentence Denji already ran into the forest yelling, "JUST GET ME A UNDO!".

Denji is running through the forest, "Okay, this is my dream of the first day I met Makima, so there should be a devil...what's it called again?" Denji kept running until he saw a little girl and some kind of giant worm-looking thing. The little girl got in front of the worm thing.

"I'm begging you pl-" But before she could say anything else, Denji being the big brain that he is, kicked the girl to the side, and pulled his cord.

"I AIN'T THAT FUCKIN' DUMB, WORM DEVIL!" Chainsaws bust out of Denji's arms and his head turns into a chainsaw too. 

"I'm ThE muSclE dEvil, dUmbASs!!" The devil reveals its true self. Denji didn't care, he cut the devil down with ease.

"Wait, that devil corrected me...How the hell can a dream correct me about stuff that I forgot about?!" Denji felt shocked, "Maybe tis ain't a dream...But there ain't no way I went back in time, is there?" Denji looks around, and for a few minutes, he touches everything around him: Grass, rocks, barks from the trees nearby, and even his face. "Shit, shit, shit, SHIT!!" Denji fell to the ground. After lying on the ground for a few minutes, he realizes something, "Wait, I can save Aki and power." This was enough to get Denji up and ready to go through the hell that was in front of him, then another thought came into his head, "I can save everyone..." Denji breathes in, "I GOT ANOTHER SHOT AT DIS!"

Denji returned to where he left Makima, this time with the girl on his back, "OH THANK GOD!" A man yells, he runs up to Denji and grabs the little girl off his back.

"She's out cold, best 'f ya take her to da hospital." Denji wiped the little girl with his coat. After a few 'thank you' the man left. Denji walked to Makima, who was now sitting at a table with two bowls, he took the seat in front of her.

"After you left that man ran up to us, he said that a devil took his -." Denji didn't listen to what Makima was saying, the only thing he was focused on was the un-soggy Undo that was in front of him, and he began to eat. After enjoying his reward Denji looked at Makima. She was beautiful and nice to listen to, but he knew who she was and what she tasted like.

"So how did you know?" Makima asks, her eyes focusing on Denji.

He already knows his answer, "I got a nose for dis kinds of things- I was kinda forced to kill devils to survive."

Makima looked at Denji with a caring look, "Can you explain that in more detail?" Despite what her eyes were saying, Makima's voice still had the same neutrality to it. 

Denji could by how she was talking that the caring look was an act- to get him to fall for her. "Well my pops was kinda in debt with a gang, he kicked da bucket before paying 't off, so I was stuck with it. Killin' devil since ummm...I was 9? I don't know anymore." Denji explained as if that was just a normal part of life, his voice sounded similar to Makima's.

"How old you are you now?" Makima asked Denji another question, this time she tried to sound more genuine, but Denji didn't buy it. 

But still, Denji answered, "About 16...I think."  Denji felt some embarrassment that he didn't know his age again. "Oh by da way, da names is Denji,''

Makima extended her hand, "My name is Makima." Denji shanks her hand, and bits on a fake smile. "Nice to meet you Denji." Makima smiled at Denji.

Denji feels tired, he used his power two times today, and he lost a lot of blood by doing it. Denji looked at Makima and a weird feeling came to his chest, "Weird...I don't...love her, that's odd to think about...I've always loved Makima even after everything that happened...But now...I can't really explain...It's like a pang of hunger or something like it." Denji sees Makima looking at him...He feels so tired.   

"You have two choices: I can kill you as a devil. Or can you be my pet as an huma-" Denji's head drops a bit but quickly comes back up.

"Sorry, kinda lightheaded," Denji said with a shy smile,  Makima looked relaxed, but one looked at her eyes said otherwise.

"Well, I guess I have to tell you aga-",

Denji cut Makima off, "Let's make a contract," Denji already knew what the question Makima was going to ask was, and he didn't wanna waste time hearing it for the third time.

"What?" Makima was caught off guard.

"I ain't no damn animal, I'm a goddamn man and I should be treated like one. I don't wanna die, but I ain't gonna be your pet. You work for public safety and I'm guessing you want me to work there, right?" Denji is being bold, and he knows she can kill him without a care in the world, but he has something she wants.

"Yes, your guess is right." Makima sounds defeated in some weird way.

"Okay here's the deal, you see me as an equal, as someone you can rely on with no plan B. Not as a damn pet." Denji is hoping she bites the bate.

"What will I get from this 'deal'?" Makima bites it. "I swear to protect everyone I can, and I will do what's best for the public safety of devil hunters." Makima didn't look like she'd agree, so Denji added on. " Just as an added cherry, I'll sacrifice myself to achieve the goal of public safety." Denji only thought about what to say in a few seconds.

"Hmm...I can work with that. Okay, deal." Makima smiles.

"Okay, it's time to meet Aki...Again." Denji smiles.

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The car ride was long, but Denji could sleep for most of it. After waking up to see a huge city, Denji knew where he was, Tokyo. It took an hour for the car to stop next to a huge building, but this wasn't the Devil Hunters HQ.  Denji got out of the car and followed Makima closely- his head was in a storm of thoughts, this was the first day of his "new" life, but his thoughts were mostly about how to save everyone. "I gotta make sure to not fall into any traps, or be tricked." Before Denji could fully develop a plan he was already in front of the Devil Hunters' HQ.

"Denji this way." Makima went into the building and Denji soon followed. 

Makima was explaining things about devil hunters and other stuff, but Denji didn't pay attention to it, he already knew the gist about the job he was about to sign his entire life to. They walked into the elevator, which when Denji looked closely at it, he could see a thin layer of rust on some of the buttons, and went up. 

"I gotta make sure that Aki doesn't use his sword thingy, Himeno said something about it using his lifespan.” Denji huffs slightly, and Makima looks over at him. “I have to save Himeno too...That puke witch." Denji's face twisted into disgust as the memory flooded back.

"What's wrong Denji?" Makima looked into Denji's eyes, but he didn't look into her eyes.

"Just a thought came to my mind, it's nuthin'." Denji said, hoping that Makima would look away from him- she did. 

The elevator stopped, and they walked out, now they were in a hallway filled with gray walls that has windows strewed about which gave some light. Makima guides the blonde to the door to an office, she says, "Denji wait here for a second." She walked off into another room.

Now that Denji thought about it he doesn't remember what any room are. "I gotta make sure to check this place out," he mumbles to himself. 

Makima walked out with a familiar set of clothes, "We typically work in uniform. Put this on." Denji grabs the black pants, white shirt, and that damned tie. "Once you've changed, I'll introduce you to one of your colleagues."

Denji looked down at his "new" pair of clothes, but he wanted to try something really new, "Umm, Makima can I get a jacket too?" He always saw Aki and the other Devil Hunters wearing them, it seemed to be the norm.

Makima shrugs her shoulders, "I don't see why not." She walks off casually back to the room she came from.

Denji waited for Makima again, but this time with some kind of feeling of excitement, “Why am I feeling this way?” But no answer came about. When Makima walked out with a black jacket he couldn't help but smile. "Thanks, dis's is cool looking." Denji put on his new piece of clothing, he was too lazy to button it up so it lay open showing off the white-button under it. 

It took them a few hallways and turns to reach her office.

Denji is now in Makima's office, waiting for his colleague to come. The blonde looked around the office, he noted how bear it was; there was only one painting and it showed a man with wings falling from the sky. The lights were also something Denji noted in his head, they were off and thus letting the only source of light come from behind Makima. He had to look up to make sure there were even light bulbs in the ceiling. 

Denji started to hum a song that came to his mind, Makima looked up from her desk, “Denji, what song is that?” 

“I can’t remember da name…But it had a groovy bass line in it.” He said with a small smile.

The door opens, and a young man who only looked to be in his early 20s enters the room, he is slightly taller than Denji. The man’s eyes looked dead, and the dark blue color reminded the blonde of the depths of the ocean.

"This is Aki Hayakawa. He's three years your senior here. For today, tag along with h- '' Makima’s words lost all meaning to Denji. He couldn't think, he couldn’t even look at him. All of the memories of spending time together: Annoying him, kicking him in the balls, kicking the balls of Himeno's killer with him, eating his food, watching him clean and cook, celebrating with him, passing out next to him, fighting with him...killing him. Makima’s words were muffled and almost non-existent, Denji’s mind was flooded with thoughts that he couldn’t stop.

He couldn't hold back any of his tears, some came out as little lines of light. Aki looks at Denji, "What the hell is wrong with the new guy?" 

Makima looked at Aki and shrugged her shoulders, "He's very....emotional...I think."

Aki sighed and looked over at Denji who stopped crying. "Da's name is Denji." 

Aki reaches out his hand, "Well, it's nice to meet you, Denji." 

Denji grabs Aki's hand, "Dis nice to meet you too." And for a second, there was a feeling of peace inside the blonde.

They're walking in a crowd of people, some where running, some are wearing suits, and others are wearing school uniforms.

"So what are we doing?" Denji just wanted to break the silence that he found between him and Aki.

"We're doing a patrol. Just making sure that there aren't any devils around." Quick and to the point, those are the two things that Aki was good at.

"You got a phone?" Denji already knew that Aki had one, but he had to act like he knew nothing about Aki.

"Yes, I do." Aki answered, his voice had a broad tone to it, nothing about it made Denji think…And yet for that reason alone, the blonde started to think about Makima…He shakes off the thought with another question:

"So do you listen to music on it? Gets chicks numbers?" 

Aki was quiet, Denji didn't like it. 

"YO!" The blonde screams. 

Aki finally spoke, "Come here a minute." 

A quick punch hits Denji's face, and then a knee into his guts, he falls onto some trash. "Just quit this job. If you co-"

"Can't." Aki stopped and looked at Denji whose nose was bloodened, and which about flowing the trail of the red down saw a small smirk.

"What does that mean?" Aki's voice filled the ally, and all other sounds disappeared as if all other things had vanished from the world.

"I'm gittin' da 'special' treatment. If I try to quit then I'm dead." Denji lets out a small laugh, still on the pile of trash but now it looks more like a bed to the young dark-haired man.

Aki bends down and grabs Denji by his musty blonde hair, "You lying." His voice carried a venomous tone with it.

"Ask Makima,” Denji had lost the smirk and his voice carried something to it, “she'll tell you the same thing."

Aki drops Denji on the bed of trash and walks away, "I'll ask her, just stay in the trash where rats like you belong."

Denji's face hurt, but he was already to the aching feeling on his cheek. He gets up and starts to walk to Aki. When he was just a leg's length away, he kicked upwards towards Aki's balls. Aki drops to the ground.

"That's for fuckin' punchin' me in da face." Denji saw Aki rolling on the ground in pain, but this wasn't enough for the blonde. With one more heavy kick to Aki's balls, Denji saw it even and picked Aki up. "'Kay let's go to Makima 'n ask her 'bout me." He said with a toothy smile, his nose still bleeding.

"Da balls devil went apeshit on poor Aki's balls." Aki was leaning on Denji's shoulder.

"He's lying!" Aki's voice sounded small.

Denji shakes his head, "Nah nuh, he's lyin'." His voice didn’t have any seriousness to it, it sounded like he was about to laugh.

They kept talking about who was lying and who wasn’t, Makima just stared at the two, and after a few seconds she cut in, "So, do you think you can get along with each other?" Aki was still leaning on Denji's shoulders, his mind was more on the pain of his crouch.

"No problemo" Denji was the first to answer the question.

"He's the worst.." Aki's voice was in a whisper, barely audible.

Makima smiles and nods, "That's good then. Denji, I'll have you join Hayakawa's squad."  

Aki's face went sour, "I've got enough pains in the ass already, don't I?! Getting one more freak is just-"

Those last words made Denji want to drop Aki to the ground, but he didn’t. Makima cuts in before Aki can finish talking.

"I told you when I made the squad that I was going to try to start an experimental system no one else had tried." Her voice was calm and demanding, and the tone of the room shifted.

Aki faced Denji and started to look closely at him as if to see any uniqueness in his face, "What is he?"

Denji formed a small smile on his face, "I can turn into a fuckin' Chainsaws!"

Aki looks at Makima with a scowl on his face. "Is...Is that true?"

Makima nodded, "Yes it is, Denji is a human who can turn into a devil." 

Aki looked shocked by this, "Are you serious? I haven't heard of anything-" 

Denji zones out of the conversation, he focuses more on Aki’s hair, or to be more accurate, he focuses on the ponytail that makes the dark man look like someone who doesn’t have a sense of hairstyle. 

"-that's why he's getting the special treatment" Denji turned back in when Makima said those words.

"I already told him it." Denji cuts off Makima, she looks at him like how an owner would look at their disobedient pet, but that look quickly changes into something else.

"S-so he wasn't lying?" Aki looked even more shocked.

"I don't know what Denji might have told you, but if it was along the lines of 'if he tries to quit or run away then he'll be taken care of like any other devil' then it's true." Makima didn't try to make her words sound sweet- it was said like how a teacher would explain something to their student, just stating facts. 

Aki's eyes met Denji's, he was shocked to see that the teen didn't seem to be scared or confused as he knew what awaited him.

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Denji is in the middle of Aki's kitchen making 'The best bread', putting random sweet stuff together onto a piece of bread was still Denji's favorite thing to do. "Hey! You better clean that up when you're done." Aki looked annoyed. 

Denji nod his head while taking a bit of his 'bread', after a few bits he looked up at Aki, "Tis 's one of my proudest pieces of bread that I ever made! I bet even Nayuta...Wait never mind." Denji's joy went away instantly, and Aki caught on to it.

"Who's Nayuta?" Aki asks with his eye narrowed at the blonde.

Denji filled his mouth with the piece of bread and quickly swallow it. "I fucked up!!" Denji begin to sweat, but after looking into Aki's eyes he found a new calm, "She was like a lil sis to me....But she's gone now, don't know what happen to her."

Aki look at Denji, like how someone would look at a hurt animal, "Oh, I'm sorry...I didn't mean to hurt you with that question."

Denji quickly stood up, "No, no, it's finne. She probably got a new home." The phone rings and Aki picks it up, he left the room.

After a few seconds Aki walked back in while putting on his suit, "There's a fiend at a residence in East Nerima ward." Denji got up and put on his jacket, he left it unbuttoned and walk towards the front door. "DENJI! You forgot your tie!"

Denji turned around, " S goin' take too much time." Denji didn't really care about how much time it will take, he just really hate wearing it.

Aki signs and walks next to Denji, "Okay, let's just hurry." Denji nods his head.

Denji and Aki are in front of a normal-looking house, a police officer walks up to them and starts explaining the situation to the fiend -Denji of course didn't pay any attention to the man, "Man I really wish I had my phone on me, I could really use a good song right now....Maybe I can save up and buy one."

Aki while listening to the police officer also looked at Denji, and saw that he was playing around with his ax, "Damn punk."  When the officer was done talking he let Aki and Denji in the house.

They walked up some stairs, and while walking they heard an odd sound, it was like a mix of bird sounds and a man screaming. Aki and Denji were faced with a door, and behind it was the source of the sound, Aki kicks in the door...A man with a bird's beak on his face.

Denji looked at Aki's face and saw a cold expression. "Show me the power you got-"

Denji cuts Aki off, "Nah, I'm goin' to do tis da ol' way." With that said Denji grips his axe harder, and walks towards the bird-man thing.

"DOn'T lOoK AT mE! KiLL! kIL -" The bird-man thing rush Denji.

The blonde cuts the birdman's head off and kicks his body, "That was easy."

Aki was almost shocked, "This punk did that with so much ease, he wasn't scared or anything...Is this his first time killing a fiend?"   Aki's shock was quickly over, and then annoyance came about, "Hey, why didn't you use the devil's power?" Aki wanted to see how useful Denji could be.

Denji turn his head so that he could face Aki, "Look, there's a cost of during into a fuckin' chainsaw, it takes lots of blood to use and da makes me tired. What if a-a real devil attacks us? I'll be useless, and you might git killed!" This was half the truth and a lie. "I don't wanna be tried while meeting Power."  Aki stares at Denji for a few minutes, as if to see if there were any lies in Denji's reason, the silence was broken when Aki sighs. 

After that everything was a blur for Denji, he was consumed by the thought of meeting Power again and...The Bat Devil. Denji's mind came back to reality when Makima finish her sentence about how he was going to get a buddy and the reason why.

"Be careful...She's a devilman." Makima said coldly.

Denji already knew this but his body couldn't stop shaking, "Shit, this gonna be hell..again." As soon as Denji thought those words the door slams open, "ALL RIGHT! BOW BEFORE ME, HUMAN! MY NAME IS POWER!" A girl with red horns busted into the room, after a quick look her eyes landed on Denji, "ARE YOU THE SO-CALLED 'BUDDY'?!"

Denji just stood there, his mind rushing with memories of spending time with Power and Aki, yelling at each other, saying that they would kill each other, complaining about each other..falling asleep with each other. Denji smiled, the toothiest smile he could make, "PLEASED TO MEET YA!" Denji shouted, he couldn't hold back his feeling of pure joy, Aki sighs and Power said some random thing.."Just like how I remember it." 

Makima sighs and everything went quiet, the air soon turns thick as fog, "Seems that you two will get along fine, but even so I still got to ask. Denji do you like to buddy up with Power?"

This question got Denji off guard, "Why the hell is she asking me this now?" After a few seconds of going over the things he did differently a memory come back to his head, "Oh yeah...I'm being treated like a person...by Makima?" Power is sweating heavily, almost shaking in her shoes. "Yeah, sure. I don't mind being buddy up with power." Denji try to sound relaxed, but his voice came up shaky and nervous.

Makima looked at Denji in a way he never saw before like there was some part of her that broke. "Alright then, here let me explain some things."

Denji and Power are walking on top of roofs on buildings, hoping across the gaps between the buildings. Denji was carrying his axe with one hand while his other was in his pocket, behind him was Power.

There was silence, no quick movement, no slap on the head, and no yelling....and that made Denji nervous, he was used to all of that from Power, but now there was no sound coming from her, it reminded him of the time when she was scared of the Darkness devil.

Denji turned and looked at Power, she looked scared. "Yo, Makima isn't here dumbass so you shouldn't look like you saw da Dark- I mean da grim reaper."

Those words seem to get power back from her mind. "STUPID HUMAN, I DO NOT FEAR ANYTHING!" Denji chuckles a bit, "Glad to be back."  

Denji ran into two policemen, and he did what Makima told him to do, he pulled out his ID and said "Yo, I'm with the public safety Anti-Devil irregular 4th section." After saying this, both men looked angry but walked away.

After Denji and Power were leaning against the railing of a building, Denji was humming a song he remembered while Power was looking ready to run at anything. "HUMAN WHY DO YOU DO THAT?" Denji stops humming and looks at Power.

"Coz, I like da song." Denji went back to humming.

"WHAT SONG IS IT HUMAN?" Denji stops and shrugs his shoulders.

"I don't know da name, som' English song." Denji went back to humming once more.

After a few minutes, Power shot up from the ground and started running, "THE SMELL OF BLOOD! A MATCH! A FIGHT! A BATTLE!"

Denji tried to run after her but he couldn't match her inhuman speed. "WAIT YOU, DUMBASS!" But Power already jumped off the building, Denji ran towards the edge and stopped. "HOW'S THAT?! GAZE UPON MY GLORY!" There was purple blood everywhere. Denji couldn't help laughing at the sight before him, Power covered in blood yelling about her glorious kill. "Yup, this is Power alright."

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Makima is sitting in front of Denji and Power, and the latter is covered in purple blood from head to toe. "Killing a devil that a private Hunter's started to work is obstruction of business, normally you'd get arrested for it." Makima's face didn't change its expression at all, yet Power looks uncomfortable, Denji understands why. "Makima will kill a lot of people who helped me out...She still looks so cold, like everything will be fine, she never looked surprised until I...." Denji's thoughts started to consume him, "And Denji you have to" Makima stops what she saying, "Denji is something bothering you?"

Denji quickly comes back to reality, well sorta. "Miss Makima I would like to ask you something," Makima looked at Denji with the same expression and nodded her head, "I-I'll like to have a phone...And a pair of earbuds too."

The young blonde looked Makima dead in her eyes, she took a moment to think, "May I ask why?"

Denji already knew his answer beforehand, "'f I'm attacked by sum big 'o devil, 'n I'm alone, it could be used to git help quicker." Denji didn't falter in his stance or his words.

Makima still held her expression nor did she falter, "Why do you need earpads?"

He didn't think this ahead, "Well I-I'm bored....like really bored, and I wanna listen to music in my free time." Denji's face started to heat up. 

Denji is staring at the vending machine, looking at all the soda it holds, he deiced to pick a random drink. Power was at another vending machine, she didn't have any money on her, "HUMAN! I DEMAND YOU TO PAY ME AN TASTEFUL SNACK!!"

The blonde had just got done with his drink, he walk next to Power, "Which one do you want?" Power just point at a bag of chips.

Power and Denji are sitting next to the vending machine, a cat walks up to Power, "I can only get along with cats." For once Power wasn't yelling, she was slowly petting the stray cat, "I hate humans! Not because they did anything to me. It's just a devil's instinctual sort of hate" Power picked up the cat while talking, "And I hate devils. BECAUSE DEVILS KIDNAPPED MY PET MEOWY!"

Denji turn to look at Power, and a memory came back...."She isn't lying...But SHE IS GOING TO TRY A KILL ME." Denji had already been through this trick once before, and he knows the truth.

"Before I could get Meowy back, I was caught by Makima...It might already have been killed, but I haven't given up." Power started to look sad, and that was going to bother Denji all night.

"That's good, you not givin' up on hope n' shit. How's about I get your cat back?" Denji said

Power looked shocked for a moment, "Why are you offering to help, do you seek something of mine?"

Denji just shakes his head, "Nah, just kinda felt da same way once before."

Power looks at Denji with disbelief in her eyes, "Explain human."

He stands up from his spot, "I had a pet devil once, he was called Pochita, me n' him lived together since I was a kid, but now I can't pet da lil guy..he saved me...Well, more like we both died, n' then he became my heart."

Denji made sure to explain his situation with Pochita more clearly this time, so Power would understand. "WAIT, YOU AIN'T A HUMAN?!"

Power looked even more shocked, Denji snorted at the face Power was making, "Well 't's more like I am human.....Well like I'm 50 percent human n' 50 percent devil. Like I got da powers of Pochita, n' I can heal just from drinking blood."

Power's shock quickly wore off and she went back to her old self. "Humans are odd." Denji nods his head, "Da I can agree." Power stands up and so does Denji, "It's kinda late, how's about we call it a night? We can deal with da Devil tomorrow." Power just nods her head.

Denji woke up to the smell of bacon, and with that, he quickly ran to the kitchen, he saw Aki cooking with a dead expression like he hasn't slept all night. "Goodmorn'."

Aki turns to Denji, "Miss Makima got you a gift," Aki pointed at a black box that's on the counter, "I don't know what it is, she said I couldn't take a peek at it..for some reason."

Denji grabs the box and opens it, inside was a phone and a pair of earbuds, and there was a note too, he reads the note:

Dear Denji,

I thought about your request, and I have decided to grant your wish. Don't worry about paying me back, it's only right to give you a gift to celebrate your joining the Public Safety.

-From Makima

Denji could read a few words due to him going to highschool, she even use hiragana to make it easier for him to read. Aki looked over Denji's shoulders to see what he got, "Oh did Makima get you a phone?"

He nods his head with excitement, "YEAH! AND SHE ALSO GOT ME A PAIR OF EARBUDS!" Aki just hums and gives Denji a small smile.

Denji's excitement dies down quickly, and his smile quickly drops. Aki picks up the quick change in Denji's demeanor, "Is there something wrong?"

The blonde just shakes his head, "Just remind Nayuta, she got me a phone but I lost it, tis phone that Makima got me kinda reminds me of it." Tears started to form in Denji's eyes, "Damn it!" Denji slams his hand down.

Saying Aki was shocked would be an understatement, this was the first time he saw Denji lose his cool, "Hey, hey" Aki quickly runs to Denji's side, "It's okay, it's okay" Aki rubs Denji's back, "you can still go and visit Nayuta if you want t-"

Denji's whaling got louder and thought that Aki hears Denji speak, "I-I CAN'T! Sh-she fuckin' gone!"

Aki stops rubbing Denji's back. "W-w-what?! I thought you said she was fine!" Aki wasn't mad as much as shocked at this revelation.

"I-I lied, I didn't wanna make you bummed out." Aki embraces Denji in a hug.

"I'm so so fucking sorry. I didn't pay your talking about Nayuta much mind, but when I did, the things you said about her...She sounded like a wonderful person."

Denji's tears carry on, but he returns Aki's hug. "She was..she was." After a few minutes of hugging, Denji lets go of Aki, they don't talk for the rest of that morning. 

"I'll allow the devilman Power to go out. Make sure you return by 5 pm!" An old guy was barking an order at Denji, who just could care less.

"Gotcha, let's go Power." Denji didn't want to spend another second near the old man, he quickly walks out and Power follows after him.

"I know where the devil that kidnapped Meowy is!" Power explains, "The problem is you're the only one who can fight it."

Denji already knows this song and dance, "Okay, just led the way." Denji wants to talk about something else.

Power nods her head, "I will."

They're on a trolly, and Denji is scrolling through the songs he downloaded on his phone, Power looks over, "Human what are you doing?"

He stops and looks at her, "I got a name, 't's Denji."

Power still looks at Denji's phone with a curious glare, "Here, put one of the earbuds in if you really wanna know what I'm listenin' to."

She grabs the earbud that Denji offers, her ears was bombarded with a loud bass and a screeching guitar. "Denji how can you find this enjoyable?!"

Denji stops the song, "Oh, rock isn't your thing?"

Power pulls out the earbud, "Whatever this 'rock' is, I don't like it." Denji just hums in response.

"'K lemme change it." After a few taps, Denji offers Power the earbud again.

"I shall not fall for your tricks!" Power wraps her arms around her chest.

Denji just huffs, "Come on, 't's different." Power looks Denji in his eyes, after a few seconds of silence she took the earbud. 

It took an hour for them to reach their destination, an old house on top of a hill. "IT'S THAT HOUSE!" Power shouts, "MEOWY AND THAT DEVIL ARE IN THERE!" Denji knows what's going happens next, and yet he doesn't say anything. They moved closer to the house, "How the fuck can I get Power not to hit me in the damn head....."

Power stops ahead of Denji, "Say Denji...What was that sound you made me listen to?"

Denji's muscles tensed up, "'T's called a piano." Power hums to herself, "I see."...Denji's head hurts...

He is feeling pressure on his chest, then in one quick second that pressure turns into pain, he wakes up in a giant hand. Denji saw a giant humanoid Bat, it's right arm is missing. "LoOK AT THE WOUND ON THIS ARM, HUMAN! IT WA-"

Denji spits on the giant bat face that was looking at him. "Shut da fuck up!"

The Bat devil tightens his grip on Denji's body, "DISGUSTING LITTLE SHIT!!"  Denji looks down at his shirt, "Damn can't reach my cord. Looks like I gotta do the same shit again." Denji looks to his right and saw Power standing there, "Unless..." 

Power meets Denji's eyes, "H-he ain't," Denji's blood is coming up from his throat, "going give Meowy back.." That's all Denji could say before his blood ruptured from his mouth. 

Denji felt his body being thrown and heard something from the Bat Devil and Power...But he felt tired, "Just let me rest for a goddamn sec!" Denji felt rage, "I could've just run away and started a new life somewhere else, but nooo I had to play the goddamn hero and tried to save everyone."

Denji looks at Power, she was talking to the Bat Devil, and he stared at her with hatred in his eyes. "I'm fucking sick of this kind of shit..." Denji looks up and saw the Bat devil eat Meowy, he look back at Power, and she looked shocked..and hurt.

Power looks over at Denji, "When you said you wouldn't be able to Pet Pochita again...I understand what you felt then. It's a miserable feeling indeed." Power looked defeated, she didn't put up a fight when the Bat Devil grabbed her and eat her.

"....THAT MOTHERFUCKER!!" Denji forced his body to stand, "IF SHE THINKS THAT SHE'LL GET AWAY SCOT FREE FROM TRYING TO KILL ME, THEN SHE HAS NOTHING THING COMING!!" Denji got under the Bat Devil, he muster up all of his reaming strength to jump up and grabbed the leg of the devil.

The Bat Devil was flying through the air saying something about eating people, Denji bits down on the devil's leg and starts drinking its blood. "

EW! It tastes like shit." But Denji still drinks it anyway. The Bat Devil sees Denji on its leg and was shocked to see a human drinking its blood.

"YOU'RE DRINKING MY BLOOD?! DISGUSTING!!!"  The Bat quickly grabs Denji...Denji got enough blood.

"Pochita, I don't know if you can hear me and I don't know if you know I'm from the future...But I just wanna tell you thanks for everything...I do miss you buddy" Denji was done repeating everything again. Denji gets his thumb hooked on his cord,

"BATTT!!" 

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Denji felt weird, it wasn't the chainsaws that were coming out of his arms, or even his head (Which also had a chainsaw coming out of it.) He felt stronger than ever, his thoughts for the first time didn't cloud his mind, and the pain of having chainsaws coming out of him didn't hurt as much, "Is this adrenaline? It must be, this feels so...GOOD!!"

Denji was able to cut the Bat Devil's hand off, this freed the blonde from the grip that he was in. "A-A DEVIL??!!" The Devil stops flying and was quickly falling towards the ground. Denji used his head chainsaw to quickly cut The Devil's right arm off, he's falling faster than the Devil now, so he uses his chain to wrap around the Devil's chest. 

"YOU AIN'T GOING GET OFF THAT EASY BATTY BOY!!" Denji headbutts the Devil's back and revs his chainsaw, cutting the Devil's back deeply. They both fall through the roof of an office building, Denji felt some of his ribs break, he looked at the doorway and saw a young girl screaming. "GIT OUTTA 'O HERE DUMBASS!!"

The girl quickly runs away from them. "W-WHY DID YOU LET HER GO AWAY?!" The Bay devil was shocked, Denji slowly stood up, "Shit, this fucking hurts" Denji looks at the Bat's chest, "But I ain't going let some Bat bitch take my sis away." Denji jumps at the Bat and lands a punch on its face. Denji wasn't done...Not by a long shot, he quickly cuts the Bat's chest open and punches him out onto the road.

The Bat Devil tried to grab a car, but Denji was quick enough to cut the Devil's arm off. "YOU DAMN THING!! JUST DIE!" The Bat suck in the air, but before he could get enough and he felt chains warp around his chest.

"FUCK NO!" Denji pulls himself at the Bat Devil and quickly chops its head off.

Blood began to rain, and as the Bat's body fell to the ground, Denji was covered in it. Knowing what's going to happen next, Denji starts the rip chunks of meat off the Bat's body and drinks its blood. While doing so he also freed Power from within the Bat's guts, but he didn't take the time to hold Power. "D-denji what are you doing?" Denji only stops drinking blood for a few seconds to look at Power...And then he went back to drinking. 

The Leech Devil was watching as her "boyfriend"'s corpse was getting its blood drunk by a teen boy, this enrages her so she made an attack.  Denji jumped out of the way and quickly pulled his cord, "I'm done pussy footing around." Denji ran towards the Leech Devil, he cuts her two front feet off.

"OH LOOK THIS PUPPY WANTS TO BITE!!"  Denji slides under the Devil and stabs his chainsaws into her gut, he made a cut big enough for him to jump in...So Denji did, "W-WHAT TH-" Before the Leech could finish her last words Denji ruptured from her back. Power just watches as Denji cuts the Devil's head off with such savagery that she was scared. "Is tis Denji?"  Power got her answer as Denji went back to his human form.

Aki saw two huge devil's corpses, but that didn't shock him, what did was seeing Denji and Power laughing and talking on top of a pile of guts. "W-what did you two do?"

Denji stops talking and looks at Aki...And smiles, "I just did m' job." 

Aki sighs and then felt a pair of arms wrap around him from behind, he turn around and see Himeno smiling, "Looks like your boy, Denji, is more capable than you thought."

He sighs again, and turns to Denji, "Well, I still gotta take you and Power in for questioning."

The blonde hummed and hop off the pile, he started to look at the group of people and he saw some old faces...Kobeni was shaking, she had tears in her eyes, and there was Arai, he looked shocked to see Denji, but he keep a righteous-looking face.

Denji walks up to them with a big smile on his face, "Name's Denji," He reached out his blood cover hand, and both Kobeni, and Arai looked at him as if he was crazy, "Oh m' bad," Denji wipes his hand on his blood cover pants, and then reach out his still bloody hand, this time Arai shook it, "N-nice to m-m-meet your D-Denji, I-i'm Arai Hirokazu."

The handshake didn't last long, only one quick shake. Denji turn his attention towards Kobeni, but seeing her shaking in fear made Denji think about how different she was in Kishibe's hideout.

Denji cleans actually his hand before reaching out for a handshake, Kobeni slowly reaches out her hand, "M-m-my n-n-name i-i-is K-k-kobeni H-h-Higashiyama."

At less that's what Denji could make out, Kobeni was at the edge of breaking down. He felt bad for Kobeni, she seems like a person he would be friends with, so he came up with an idea to put her at ease.

"I gotta go n' do sum stuff, but I hope I'll see y'all again soon...So I can at less giv' y'all a better look at me, not cover 'n blood." Denji flush a toothy smile at them, hoping to show them he wasn't going to hurt them.

They looked even more scared. 

Denji went through the same thing he did last time, the only difference being it was at a police station instead of a hospital.

After that day Denji knew what was coming up next...Power moving in. "I gotta do something about Makima, she has her claws in Aki...I need him to cut tides with that her...Wait what the hell?!" Denji was trying to think of different ways to cut Makima's tides with Aki, Okay, I need to think of a plain .................................................................................................Shit I ain't no good at thinking of plains like this." Denji decides to sleep.

It was a normal morning in the Hayakawa's home, Aki was up early and did his routine while Denji was waking up. Aki was washing the dishes, and Denji was eating his 'super bread', "What's lunch?" Denji asks while biting his bread.

"Some Cu-" Aki was cut off by loud knocking. Denji knew it was Power, so he quickly opened the door and let her in, "I ain't goin' to let that poor door get smashed in." Denji looked back at the door and give it a tiny smile.

Aki started to shout at Power, but that didn't bother her, Denji picked up the phone when it rang. "Aki i' busy right now....No, no I understand....Yeah sure, 'll tell him...Yeah bye." Denji puts the phone back and tells Aki the news. 

Power is a horrible roommate, she doesn't flush after using the bathroom, she didn't take showers or bathes, she wasted food, and she always lies, any normal person would get sick of her and kick her out...While Aki was 'normal' and he did get tired of Power's shit, Denji was happy, he finally got his family back...While there was still one that was missing.."Nayuta". 

"Damn, I can't be happy with what I got huh?..... I want Nayuta back, I didn't wanna waste time thinking about the past while I was getting everyone back, but now I'm done with that...All I gotta do now is protect them from Makima...." Denji was on his back looking at his bedroom ceiling, "S-should I kill Makima...Sure I did before but I didn't have any other choice, now I do...But then Nayuta won't be here...There could be some good in Makima, and I could make her a better person...But I don't know if she does...I do know Nayuta is a good kid if I rise her right, plus I got Aki to help me this time too!"

Denji was imagining him and Aki telling Nayuta what was right and wrong...

He felt a familiar pain in his chest, but this time it got bad...Denji's breath quickness and he gripes his shirt, "M-my heart!!" Denji felt like he was dying.....

Denji woke up in a tight space..he felt something on his chest, and he opens his eyes...And there was Pochita.

"POCHITA!!!" Denji hugs his friend tightly against his chest.

"Denji...Do you remember our Contract ?" Pochita asks.

Denji nods his head, "Yeah how can I forget it, but why does that have to do with anything?"

Pochita looks at Denji, "The reason you're..back here is because of me...I couldn't stand watching you being not fully happy...And that would have broken our  Contract. So I did somethings and I was able to send you back in time..."

Denji didn't understand how Pochita could have done any of this stuff...But he didn't ask any questions. "Denji, the Control Devil is a danger to your goal...I'm sorry to tell you this but...I don't think she would stop as long as I'm here...But you do have a choice.."  

Denji looked at Pochita shocked, "Y-you sure?" Pochita only nodded, "Damn...That sucks." Denji heard a sound coming from Pochita, it sounded like a laugh...And then he woke up.

"Thank you, Pochita." 

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Denji was cleaning Power's mess in the toilet, he was wearing a mask to protect his nose from the smell. "I swear to fuck! I saved 'er damn ass, and I still gotta clean 'er shit."

He was stuck with bathroom duty for today, he and Aki made a schedule for cleaning the house. "I thought today was Aki-"

The bathroom door opens, and Denji stops and turns around...There was Power. "What da hell you doin' here?!" Denji didn't want Power to bother him while he was cleaning her shit.

"Human...Why did you save me and Meowy?" Power asks with her arms wrapped around her chest.

Denji just sighs, "Coz I felt bad, ok?"

Power didn't move, "I must give you something then..." Denji was shocked, he didn't think Power would try and give him something. "I shall do as you wish but for only once!"

Denji didn't want anything from Power...Well, he did want her to live. Power looked at Denji, and he looked at her...silence befall them. "Well, there is one thing I want...." Denji looks into Power's eyes, "I wan' a hug."

Power looked dumbfounded, "I-I shall allow it...Don't try anything funny." With that Denji quickly wrap his arms around Power.....They were there for a couple of minutes. "T-that's enough Denji." Power was the first to pull away, she was red as a beetroot. "Thanks, Power." Power just leaves the bathroom.

It was early in the morning when Aki told Denji to meet with Makima at the headquarter, Denji was walking to it since it was only one mile away and Aki had to do something.

While Denji was walking he was looking at all the fast-food places he could go to before the meeting with Makima, he stops at a burger place called Family Burger. "Can I hav' aaaaaa cheeseburger?" The cashier puts on a smile and asks if that's all, Denji thinks about........"Yep."

With that Denji turns around and looks for a seat, he looked around the restaurant and found a surprising guest.

Kobeni was sating next to a window in a booth, she looked nervous and about to break down, "Even eating out scares her?"  Denji felt bad for Kobeni, he checks the time on his phone "Huh, it's only 8:15 I got time to kill."

Denji walks up to Kobeni, "Heya Kobeni." Kobeni looks up and sees Denji, "Ahh!" Kobeni jumps back a bit, "'O shit, sorry didn't mean to scare ya." Denji quickly rise his hands to show he wasn't going to hurt her.

"S-S-Sorry, y-y-y-y-y-y-you De-Denji right?" The brown-haired girl shatters out.

He nods his head, "Yeah, 's me." There was an awkward silence between them until Denji said something, "Can I seat with you?" Kobeni just nods her head quickly. 

Denji is waiting for his order while Kobeni got hers, a cheeseburger, a small drink, and fries, she takes tiny bits of her cheeseburger while Denji watched.

"I'm sooo fuckin' hungry right now." Denji looks at Kobeni's fries...An idea comes to him.

"Hey Kobeni, can I have your fries?" Denji asks, his mouth-watering.

Kobeni stops eating, "Y-y-yeah sure, I-i-I d-do-don't usually eat t-the fries." Kobeni pushes her fries toward Denji, who quickly shoves all of them in his mouth...

"These fries ain't bad, in fact, they are to die for-" Denji felt something get stuck in his throat, and he started to cough. Kobeni quickly gets up and slaps Denji's back a couple of times, causing him to cough up pieces of fries .

"*Huff* T-thanks Kobeni, you saved my ass." Kobeni starts to shake and cry. "H-hey why are you cryin'?" Denji asks, and started to pat her back.

Kobeni continued to cry, "I-I-i'm S-S-SORRY!"

Denji was confused, "Why are you sorry?"

Kobeni's tears didn't stop, "I-I-IF I HADN'T GIVEN YOU MY FRIES THEN YOU WOULDN'T HAVE NEARLY DIED."

The blonde starts to laugh, "It's fine, those fries were good, so I wouldn't mind dyin'. Plus I can come back to life 'f sum blood 's given to me." Kobeni stops crying, but there were a couple of tears left.

"Y-y-you wouldn't m-mind d-d-dying for fries?!" Kobeni asks, her eyes widen.

Denji just simply nods, "Yeah, tits' sum good fries." Kobeni started to laugh, Denji was surprised to hear her laugh. 

He just waits for Kobeni's laughter to die down, he looked at the time, "8:25 huh, I still got a shit ton of time left before the meeting." Denji looks at Kobeni, she was back to her burger, and another idea came into his head.

"Hey, umm look I don't wanna own anybody anything...So lemme take you out for ice cream." Denji offers with a smile.

Kobeni stops mid-bite, she looked shocked, "Y-you don't have t-to do th-"

Denji cuts her off, "Come on, plus I want ice cream, so I'm going with or without you." He was getting up from his seat, and Kobeni got up too, "O-Okay." 

Denji and Kobeni are walking towards the nearby ice cream shop, "H-hey Denji if you don't mind m-me asking, do-does c-c-chainsaws come out o-of you?" Denji hums yeah, "Do-does it hurt?"

This question surprises Denji, "Thought she was going ask what devil I'm contracted with." Denji remembers how much it hurt him to turn into Chainsaw Man, but he gotta used to it by this point, "At first yeah, 't fuckin' hurt like a motherfucker, but I'm used to it." 

"W-why did y-you join?" Kobeini asks the blonde.

He shrugs his shoulders, "Coz I was forced to in a way. 'T was me gettin' killed or join. You?"

Kobeni blushes, "I was forced too.......My parents want me to pay for my brother's university."

Denji forgot some things about Kobeni, so he was taken aback, "Do you even wanna do this job?"

Kobeni begins to cry again. "N-n-no! I want to go to university too! It was either devil hunting or sex w-worker!" Denji forgot how sad Kobeni's life was, so in the heat of the moment, he hugs her. 

He pays for her ice cream, "T-thanks."

The blonde just smile at Kobeni, "No problem." Denji checks his phone, "Oh I gotta go, talk to you later Kobeni." Kobeni waves goodbye as Denji walks to the headquarter.. "Feels like I forgot something."

A lonely burger was left on a table... 

Denji was doing paperwork while Makima was telling him what to do. There was silence in Denji's brain, he was so focused on doing paperwork that it would have even surprised Aki, Makima didn't let this go unnoticed, "Is there something on your mind Denji?"

He stops stamping the pile of paper in front of him, "Not really, 'n fact tits' da only time there isn't something going on in my head."

Makima hums, "Oh, so what have you been thinking about then?"

Denji's muscles tenses, but then he relaxes with a few deep breaths, "I usually think about my old life."

The red-haired woman stares at Denji, "Was there something that happen to you in your past?"

He leans his chin on top of his hand, "I-I gotta tell you something...Please don't tell anyone else okay?"

Makima looked surprised, "Denji I won't tell a soul."

With that Denji continues, "See, it's about what happened to my dad...I killed him, he was drunk and he started to hit me, a-and then he grabbed my neck...I grabbed a bottle and smashed it on his head..."

He looked up at Makima who looked shocked, "I'm sorry to hear that Denji, by what you told me I thought your father had killed himself..."

Denji looks down at his paper, "D-da guilt was killing me...I wanted to tell someone, but if I did then I would have been killed.." Makima hugs Denji, it was weird to see Makima doing such a human thing, it shocked Denji. "I-i am a-a bad person?" Denji asked Makima, she got close to his ear, "No Denji...It was self-defense...I don't think you're a bad person." Denji starts to cry.

"Shh, don't worry," Makima says while Denji's back. After a few minutes, Denji stops crying, and Makima made her move, "Denji, I've got a favor to ask you. Is that okay?"

Denji knew what was coming next, "Yeah anything."

Makima smiles at Denji, "I want you to defeat the Gun Devil." Makima explains what the Gun Devil was and how powerful it is, "Do you think you can defeat it?"

He looked at Makima, "As long as I got all of Division 4 with me, then hell yeah!"

Makima smiles, "Good, and if you defeat the Gun Devil then I'll grant you any one request you have."

Denji smiles, "We'll win fo' sho'!"   

"Holy shit.....That was weird" Denji thought while walking out of the office, "I know I have choices...But I can't let her get in my head, I'm gonna kill Makima."  He felt tried, "I'm going to take a nap."

Aki, Denji, Kobeni, Power, Himeno, and Arai are in front of a hotel, "A devil was spotted inside Hotel Morin. The stat-"

Denji already heard all of this before, so his mind instantly blink and wander off, "Shit this is where that Eternity Devil is...Gotta think of a faster way to kill- WAIT!! There wouldn't be any animals in there....So...." 

"Mr.Hayakawa, as people who are supposed to fight together against a devil...Is it really okay to be trusting our backs to them?" Arai asked while looking at Denji and Power.

"Don't worry, me n' Power is goin' to lead." Denji yawns.

Aki shockingly looked at Denji, "How did you know that?"

Denji shrugs his shoulders, "'T makes sense, put two people who are really hard to kill in front, to be used as shields." Denji smirk.

Aki sighs, "Ain't that just treating us like animals?" Power asked.

That got on Aki's nerves, "You two don't have any human rights!" Aki scolded...

"I think he's mad 'bout da prank." Denji whispers, and Power nods.

"THAT WAS NOT A GODDAMN PRANK! I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!" Aki's scream scared everyone...except Denji and Power, who just laughed. 

Himeno starts to smile behind the group, "I goottt annnn idea!"

Everyone turns around, "Oh no!" Himeno continues, "Whoever kills the devil first will get a kiss on the cheek!" Everyone was silent...

"THAT'S! YOU SHOULDN'T DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT! AN UNMARRIED MAIDEN DOING SUCH A LEWD.." Arai screams with a mad blush on his face.

Denji busted out laughing, and everyone looks at him, "Sorr', sorr', but that was too funny not to laugh."

Himeno puffs out her cheeks, "It wasn't supposed to be funny!"

The blonde chuckles, "A peck on the cheek isn't nearly worth dyin' for!"

Himeno's smile returns, she gets next to Denji and whispers, "If you kill the devil, then I'll give you a French kiss."

He just looks at her, "Nah, I'm still going kill the devil no matter what. But I don't want that kiss." Denji walks next to Aki, "Let's go."

Denji was walking ahead of the group with his hands in his pockets, Power was behind him, talking about blood, Aki and Himeno were talking, Arai was speed walking next to Denji, and Kobeni was in the back of the group. "I gotta wait for a bit more..."  

He stops, and a door opens in front of him...A human head walks out, it jumps but stops mid-air, and then Power cuts it in half.

Power starts to laugh at the 'dead' devil while Himeno was explaining to Power why the devil stopped in the air.

Denji could care less, but what got his attention was Kobeni's crying, he walks over to her, "Hey, what's the matter?"

Kobeni points at the devil, "I-i-it go-got r-r-r-really close t-t-to me!"

Denji warps his arms around Kobeni's shoulder, "'T's fine, tits fucker 's dead."

The hug calms Kobeni down a bit, "T-t-thanks Denji.."

He looks down at Kobeni, "For what?"

She looks slightly up at Denji, "F-for giving me hugs when I'm crying."

Denji just smiles, "No problemo." 

Power ran ahead of the group and she already made it to the 8th floor. 

"Here we go....again." 

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Power ran up the stairs to the 9th floor, but when she reached the top...She was back on the 8th floor. Arai looked shocked so he ran up the stairs for only the same thing to happen. “What the-?!” Arai looks more shocked.

Himeon did the same thing as she did last time, in fact everything happens the same as they did last time. After everyone figured out that escape was impostable, well everyone besides Aki, they just sat in the same room. Aki and Himeon were talking about their situation, Denji was laying in bed, Power was blaming Denji, Arai was trying to keep Kobeni calm. “We’re all going to die here…We’re going to starve to death..” Kobeni was mumbling to herself.

“Nah, there’s sum food here.” Denji yawns.

Everyone looks at him, “What are you talking about?” Aki stares at Denji, who is getting off the bed. “Follow me.” 

Denji walks to some luggages and opens them up. “Da ta!” 

There was some food items inside, Denji grabs a pack of chips and walks to Kobeni, “You ain’t go’ to die in tis place.” Kobeni looks up at Denji, she stops crying. “T-t-thanks D-Denji.” Denji just smiles at Kobeni.

“How did you know there was food in the luggages?” Arai asks Denji.

“Coz I’m fr-” “Wait! No I can’t tell no one yet…Makima still got her claws in Aki, so if I told them the truth then I’m fucked.” 

“What?” Aki asks.

“Oh, I’m from da stress, so I kinda have an idea where people put their food. Plus ‘t makes sense why there’s food in people’s luggages.” Denji shrugs his shoulders. Aki sighs but he doesn't say anything. Everyone starts to loot the abandoned luggages, finding food, and pairs of clothing. Denji couldn’t help but stare at some women’s underwear, “No I can’t start acting live a prev now.” Denji slaps his cheeks before anyone sees him. After a bit, they gathered every piece of food there was, and put it in one room. “There’s should last us for five days at most.” Aki starts to light up a cigarette.

“You should really go easy on those things, ‘t could kill ya.” Denji said. Aki just huffs and continues smoking his cigarette.

“‘Kay, we gotta find this devil, but we can’t waste all of our energy looking for it.” Denji was in front of the group, “We gotta split into two groups, one ‘s look’ for this devil fucker, while da others rest. Once da looking group gets tired, then we switch.” Everyone was staring at Denji.

“Who’s going to be in which group?” Arai asks.

“You, Aki, and Kobeni will be resting, whil-” 

“I’m not resting!” Aki cuts Denji off, “I’m fine and ready to go, besides I don’t trust you or Power.” Aki was staring into Denji’s eyes, the mood in the room shifted into a serious tone.

“Ugg..FINE! Me, Himeno, and Kobeni are going to rest, is da 'kay for you dicknesses?” Denji looks at Aki…Aki nodes his head.

“Why does Aki have to be a dick?” Denji is looking at the ceiling, he grabs a half-empty bag of chips and starts to eat them. Kobeni has her legs against her chest, her arms wrap around them, crying to herself. Himeno was smoking next to an open window, which led to another room. "W-we are going to die." Kobeni was repeating things over and over again. Denji couldn't stand it, "We ain't gonna die." Kobeni stops crying, and looks at Denji.

"A-a-are you sure?" Kobeni was staring at Denji, watching his every movement. Denji just hums, Kobeni was still looking at him..."Ugg," Denji felt weird being looked at, "Yeah I'm fucking sure we ain't gonna die." Kobeni's eyes light up upon hearing that. 

Denji looked at the clock.... "Shit...I forgot the clocks don't work..How long has it been?" Denji starts to worry, so he does the only thing that makes sense to him...He lays down on the bed. "Damn, I'm killed." Denji yawns while stretching his arms.

"H-how can you be so relax in this situation?!" Kobeni shouted, she starts to cry again. Denji turns over to face her, "Cuz I'm used to tis kind of stuff." This catches Himeno's attention.

"Oh? What does that mean Denji~?" Himeno sits on Denji's bed. 

"I'm too damn tired to' explain shit. Lemme get sum Zs." Denji close his eyes, and quickly falls asleep.

Denji was in front of a familiar door, it was covered in newspapers and it looked rotten. "DoN'T OpEN ThIS dOoR DenJi." A voice calls out. Denji has already been through this...He knows the truth about what really happened to his father. "I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED!" Denji shouted...He kicks in the door...There was something in a dirty room, a boy...Holding a broken glass bottle...He was above a body of a grow man...Denji takes a couple steps inside...He watch as the Boy quickly make the scene to appear as a suicide...

The Boy starts to cry, "I'ma bad person, I'ma bad person.." Denji moves slowly towards the Boy..."You ain't bad" The Boy quickly turns around, "Your dad was an asshole. 'T was live or died...You picked to live." The Boy stares at Denji...

"Mister, w-why do bad things always happen to us?" The Boy asks Denji, who was sitting next to him.

"Life's a bitch...But we gotta make it worth a damn. People 's gonna die...I've seen it...People who care for us." Denji huffs, "But we can stop 't now...I need you to go through this hell, not coz there'll be a big tits chick waiting for us..No, we've got a family and we gotta protect their dumbasses." Denji chuckles...The Boy looks up at Denji, and gives him a hug..."Thanks..."

Denji woke up, he felt a weight on chest...Power was passed out on top of him. "Looks like it's our turn..."

Aki and Himeno were sharing a cigarette, Kobeni was asleep on the bed next to Denji's. Arai looked freaked out, and was mumbling to himself out "I've got some bad news." Aki said while taking another drag of the cigarette. "It's getting bigger, and bigger." Aki takes one last drag before putting the cigarette out.

Denji push Power off and gets up, "'kay let's do tis shit." Everyone looks at Denji as if he wasn't making any sense. 

They are in front of a pile of flesh, there's faces and limbs in the breathing pile too. "H U ManS," A head starts to speak, Le T' S N EoTA TE A CoNTRacT." Another head says.

"'T wants my heart." Everyone turns around to look at Denji. "How can you kn-" Aki was cut off.

"Coz I just know." Denji yells, "Da fucker has been a pain 'n my ass." Denji stares at the Devil. "Fuck you, Eternity Devil." 

"Wh-what do we do?" Arai asked, his voice was low and broke half way through. 

"We gotta wait till da perfect moment." Denji says while walking back to the room. "Wait! Where are you going?!' Arai runs towards Denji. "I'm going back to my room," Denji keeps walking, "and go back to sleep."

There were no dreams this time, Denji was just in a void, no sound, no light, nothing. "This is...Weird...I can't feel anything..Maybe this is what being dead feels like...This is boring..I hate it."  

Denji slowly opens his eyes, and saw Himeno on top of him. "Heeyyy Denji~" Himeno was smiling. "Oh no."

"How's everything?" Denji asked, trying to shift Himeno off him. "Aki is trying to find a way to kill the Devil. But as it turns out, it's heart isn't on this floor. So we pretty much stuck here forever...Unless you die for us, Denji~" Himeno's smile didn't change.

"Ugg...I got an idea." Denji sighs, "I need some knives, and your help." Himeno looks at Denji with a curious look. "Okay, I'll do your plan first." Himeno gets off of Denji. "But if your plain fails, then I'll kill you."

Denji grabs all the knives he could find, but there's one left and he knows who might have it. Denji walks to Kobeni, she's been on the bed looking up at the ceiling, her eyes was red and puffy, "Hey, Kobeni you got a knife?" Denji asked even though he knew the answer, "Y-Y-yeah I do. W-W-Why d-do you ask?" Kobeni looks at Denji.

"I need it." Denji opens his hand.

"W-Why?" Kobeni looks at Denji's hand.

"Coz I got a plain, to get us out." Denji still has his hand open.

"W-Will your plane work?" Kobeni asked, "So many fucking questions!" Denji sighs, "I'm 100% sure it will work." 

Kobeni looks at Denji's brown eyes, "Okay, here." Kobeni puts her knife in Denji's open hand. 

"Thanks." Denji walked out of the room, when a random thought came to his mind. "This is gonna take a day or two at best..And I'm gonna be fighting a big ass Devil for those days...I gotta put my phone somewhere." Denji turns around and tosses Kobeni his phone. "Take care of it for me 'k?" Kobeni nods her head.

Denji and Himeno walk up to Aki, who's been sitting on the ground for hours. "Akiiii!" Denji shouts. 

Aki turns around and sees Denji holding five knives in each hand. "WHAT THE FUCK DENJI?!" Aki screams. "Dude chill, tis's my plan to get outta here." Aki looks at Denji as if he was the dumbest person in the world. "Wha-" Denji cuts Aki off again.

"Trust me, it's gonna make sense." Denji's confidants were through the roof. "I'm going tilt this fucking floor." Aki stares at Denji. "Are you okay?" Aki asked, genuinely worry about Denji.

"Yup, anyways it's best if you go to a room at da end of tis hall." Denji points down the hall. "Why?" Aki doesn't want do something Denji told him to do. "Cuz tis floor is gonna tilt." Aki doesn't move..."Ugg fine. But don't say I didn't warn you, dumbass." 

"You remember da plain?" Denji asks Himeno, she nods her head. "Let's gooo!" Denji throws a knife into the Devil, and then throws another one, he keeps throwing until he's out of knives. "W hAT IS thiS Fo o L ishnE SS? " The Devil grows bigger.

"It's your turn Himeno." Denji shouts. Himeno uses the Ghost Devil's hand to tear pieces off the Eternity Devil's body. This makes the Devil grow bigger, Himeno keeps at this until the floor starts to shift. 

"EVERYONE RUN!!" Denji screams while running down the hall, Aki and Himeno start to run too. The floor was tilting, Denji quickly jumps into a room, so does Aki and Himeno. 

"What now genius?!" Aki shouted across to Denji. They are in different rooms, right across each other, between them is a long fall which leads to the Devil that was waiting. Denji didn't answer Aki, instead he took off his shirt. "Yo, tis might take a bit so wait!" And with that Denji jumps, "DENJI!" Aki screams, reaching his hand out even though the distance between them was too big for Aki to grab Denji. 

"This gonna suck...At least nobody tried to kill me this time." Denji smiles as he pulls his cord.

"FUCK YOU!!" 

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It's been two days now, and the sound of chainsaws hitting flesh and bones, and the screams of a giant devil kept Himeno up. She looks down at the bottom of the hall, where she sees Denji slicing the Eternity Devil up. It would always heal the cuts, then hit Denji, causing him to lose blood, but he always drank the Devil's blood when he ran out. "FUCK YOU!" Denji screams as he cuts another limb off. Denji's engine dies down, but Himeno quickly uses the Ghost Devil's hand to pull Denji's cord, causing him to get back up and start it all over again. 

"I can finally let some stress out." Denji swings his chainsaw arms wildly, not aiming for anything. Denji lost track of time, lost in a familiar feeling of euphoria, the lack of care and worries bought Denji a smile. "StOP, PLESAE JusT KIlL ME!" The Devil pled, but Denji ignored it. "FUCK NO! I'M GONNA KEEP CUTTING YOU UP, 'TILL I'M DONE!" Denji continues his attacks.

"HERE IS MY Herat, Just kill me." Denji didn't ignore the Devil's pled this time. "FINNNEEE!" Denji cuts the Devil's heart in half.

Denji, Power, Aki, Himeno, Kobeni, and Arai walk out of the hotel. Denji is covered in blood and guts, and he slowly moves ahead of the group. "We...We made it out.." Denji falls before he could say anything else. Kobeni quickly caught him, "H-He's asleep." 

Aki picks Denji up, from Kobeni's hand. "Me and Power are going to take him to the hospital," Aki turns around to face the others, "welcome to the job." And with that Aki walks away with Denji on his back, and Power follows right behind him.

Denji woke up to the sight of a plain white ceiling, "I guess I passed out..." Denji stared blinky at the ceiling, slowly breathing in and out, no thoughts came to his mind. The door to Denji's room opens, and walks in Aki with a basket, "Hey."

"Heya." 

They both stare at each other for a moment until Denji broke the silence, "How long have I been out?" Aki took the seat next to Denji's bed. "A day, but your body healed in a couple of hours after we left the hotel...You just went into a crazy deep sleep." 

Denji laughs and Aki just looks at him, "Where's Powy?" Denji asked after his fit of laughter died down. 

"She's back home, taking care of that damn cat." Aki sighs then slowly lifts the basket towards Denji, "Here, it's...It's a get-well gift from everyone that was at the hotel." The basket is full of different kinds of things; a couple of apples, some letters, chocolate, and other candies.  

"SWEET!" Denji grabs the basket out of Aki's hands and tears it open. "Damn someone didn't hold back on their money." Denji pulls out a big box of chocolate opens it up and sees different kinds of chocolate. There's a note with it and even though Denji could barely read it he could read the name, "Kobeni".  Denji took half of the chocolate and puts them on a plate, he pushes them toward Aki.

"I can't, it was meant for you." Aki pushes the plate back, but Denji stops him halfway. "Come on! You were there too, 's you should get sum too!" Denji pushes with more effort. Aki sighs, he stops pushing and lets the plate be pushed toward him.

"Ugh fine." Aki grabs a piece of chocolate and eats it.

"We sure have a dinner party or sumthing," Denji said while walking out of the hospital. "we could all hang out 'n do sum fun stuff!" Denji turns to face Aki and Power.

"Himeno was saying the same thing," Aki said while pulling out another cigarette. "If he keeps smoking like this then he'll die before I can save his ass...WAIT" Denji starts to remember something that Himeno said in his other life, "This something up with that sword thingy..." 

"Heya Aki, what does your sword thingy do really?" Aki stops walking and looks at Denji, "Why do you want to know that?" Denji looks at Aki, they are 5 feet apart from each other, but when they were staring at each other it felt like they was drawing closer together.

"Coz you look like a crazy guy carryin' a fuckin' sword, so I wanna know why." Denji didn't wanna back down, not until he got an answer...But a sudden feeling of a heavy thing jumping on his back caused him to quickly react to it in a way that he was used to, he quickly grabs the arm that was wrapped around his neck and he pulls the thing over his shoulders, making the thing hit to the ground.

"Oww." Power moans in pain, Denji looks down and sees Power flat on her back, and then he quickly looks up at Aki, who looks stunned.

"Shit sorry Power!" Denji yells, as he quickly realizes that her shoulder could have been dislocated or at worse broken. Denji kneels next to Power, who was holding her shoulder in pain, "Here lemme see." Denji tabs Power's hand, she slowly releases her grip and lets him feel her shoulder.

"Shit it's...fine..." The relief that filled Denji's body, when he saw he didn't seriously injure Power, was one of the greatest breaths of air he had felt in his life, but there was an odd feeling in his chest... "I'M SOO FUCKIN' SORRY POWER!" Denji starts to cry as he slams his head down on the sidewalk, causing blood to start to ooze out of his forehead. 

Aki watches as two complete nutjobs cry, one was in pain while the other was crying with blood pouring out of their forehead, "Why do I even put up with you two?" 

"I can also drink your blood until you die!" Power was yelling her list of 'demands' at Denji, who was sitting next to her at the table, he agreed to do anything she wants for her forgiveness.

"Okay."

"You gotta bathe Meowy every day for a whole year."

"I don't think da's good for a cat."

"Mmmm, you gotta bathe Meowy every time she wants one."

"Okay."

(This goes on for another hour, and I don't wanna miss my deadline.)

"Are you two ready?" Aki asked as he puts on his tie, Denji, and Power looks at each other with slack jaws, "SHIT!"

After they quickly ran around a put on anything that seems clean, Denji and Power were ready to go. "Okay, let's go." Aki said while lighting his second cigarette. Denji was able to put on his jacket and was walking beside Aki, Power didn't put on her uniform, she was wearing ripped jeans and a pink shirt.  

Denji's mind wanders around while he sat down at the table, "This...this is where it happened to me..." Denji couldn't help but feel unsafe, he was at the same restaurant where he got a puke kiss..."I should eat something." Denji grabs a plate and starts to eat what was on it..."This kinda reminds me of..." Kobeni walks in.

"Sorry... I got lost on the way..." Denji lifts his head upon hearing Kobeni's voice.

"Heya, Kobs!" Kobeni looks at Denji, who was signaling her to sit next to him, and she did. "How have you been doin'?" Denji asked with a mouth full of food.

"I-I'm doing f-fine." Kobeni said while looking at Denji with a worried expression on her face. "H-hey don't eat so fast...You c-could chock ag-again!" Denji stops eating and looks at Kobeni, the sound of her voice got his attention, and he follows what she told him and eats slower. "Yeah sorry, I'ma bit stressed." Denji said while drinking his tea. 

Denji was lost in thought, he looks around and sees everyone laughing and smiling...Aki and Power smiling..."I can't fuck this shot up...I can't lose you all again."  The pain of their deaths came back to him all at once, tears start to form in Denji's eyes, and he gets up, "I gotta go outside to get sum air." That was all that Denji said before he quickly walk outside. There was an alley between the restaurant, Denji went there and sat down on the floor and he starts to cry. 

"Ar-Are you okay?" Denji heard a voice, he knows it was Kobeni standing above him, "She sounds worried." 

"Yeah, just...I just can't stand bein' around a bunch of peps." Denji was coving his eyes, so she couldn't see how red they were. "D-Denji I could hear you crying..." Denji looks up from his arm and stares at Kobeni. 

"Sorry for worryin' ya, you can go back...I'll be fine." Denji didn't want anyone to see him like this, but Kobeni didn't leave. "I'm not leaving you in this shady-looking alley." Kobeni says as she took a sat next to Denji. 

Denji chuckles at Kobeni, "Damn, I can't even feel sad by myself huh." Denji looks at Kobeni, "Well, you lookin' cute." Kobeni blushes upon hearing that, "This outfit is a hand-me-down from my older sister." Denji shakes his head, "Da outfit is cute 'n all but I said that you are cute." Denji's words were slurs, and the scent of alcohol was on his breath. "Shit I think I drank Himeon's drink..." Denji stands up or at less, he tried to, as he fell but Kobeni was able to catch him. "Sorry, I-I got drunk." Denji laughed.

Denji and Kobeni were able to make it back to the restaurant, where one of the older men at their table wanted them to talk about themselves, Denji went up first. "H *Hiccup* Hey da name is Denji and I'm...16..*Hiccup* or was 't 19? Ohh I can't remember...I like to eat reeeaaalllyyy good food and sleeping. Oh and I'm with Pochita" Everyone looks at Denji, "16..That's so young!" One person yelled. 

"Denji you ain't drinking any beer right?" Himeno asked, and all Denji did was nod his head, "I had one glass." Everyone starts to freak out, "My head hurts." Denji looks at the entrance of the restaurant, and he sees Makima...Denji felt something inside him break and anger fills him, and unbuttons his shirt, but before he could do anything he passes out.

"I fucking hate you." 

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"I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU." Denji remembers thinking those things when he first saw Makima, but he sees poor Arai getting the puke kiss from Himeno right now and he's now on the floor surrounded by Aki and other members of different divisions. "Denji are you alright?" Aki asked as he shakes the boy. It's safe to say that those thoughts were gone from Denji's head.

"Oww.." Denji morns as a familiar feeling came from his throat, he quickly shot up and pushes anyone that was in his way aside as he made a mad dash to the bathroom, Arai soon follows too. "*Blughh*" The sound of two people vomiting wasn't as quiet as some may think. After Denji was done with the poor toilet he walked out of the stall and sees Arai over another toilet. Denji understands the pain, "Damn, da must have sucked." Arai was dry heaving over the toilet. Denji remembers what Arai did for him during this horrible time, so he tries to do the same. Denji gets behind Arai and starts to rub his back, "I was in da same boat as you buddy."

Arai looks up at Denji, "W-what the hell do you mean?! Your first kiss tasted like puke?" Denji keeps rubbing Arai's back, but he started to laugh as it dawns on him how fucked everything was..."I went back in time...Did the same shit, but this time I'm the one who's helping out...Damn this world is fucked." 

After Arai and Denji were done with the bathroom they walked out covered in sweat and the smell of vomit, Arai's arm was warped around Denji's shoulder. "W-we made 't buddy-*BLECH*" Denji puked again, but he pushes forward which causes him to slip on the vomit. "Oww." They both said.

Aki watched as the whole thing went down in front of him, and he was the first to Denji's side trying to help him up. "Denji!" Aki wasn't sober so helping the drunk teen up was proving to be a harder task than he first thought. "Kobeni can you help *Hiccip* me get Denji up?" Kobeni nods her head, and she helps Aki get Denji to his feet. 

"Dooonn't forget 'bout Arai." Denji tries to reach down to grab Arai, but Aki quickly sat Denji down before he could fall again. Himeno helped Arai up and puts him on the seat next to Denji, "Damn, what are we going to do about these two?" Himeno asked Aki, who just shrugs his shoulders.

"Me and Power can carry Denji home...I think..." Aki looks over to see Power also drinking beer. "Okay never mind, I think Power is going to be out...And if that happens then I gotta carry her, that leaves Denji..." Aki is thinking of all the possible to carry two people, and his mind came up with...nothing. "Himeno can you carry-" Aki sees as Himeno was picking Arai.

"Sorry I can't...My hand is kinda full." Himeno said with a smile. Aki is back to thinking about how he could carry both Power and Denji, he was so in-deep thought that he didn't realize that everyone left...Except for Makima. "Maybe I could leave Denji here..." Aki was thinking out loud to himself.

"Is there any problem Aki?" Makima asks Aki, who was whispering to himself all of his thoughts, but when she asked that question he stopped and looked at her. 

"I don't think I can carry Denji and Power back home, I may have to call a taxi-" Makima cuts Aki off.

"I can take Denji home with me if you don't mind." Makima offers. Aki stood there shocked, he rubs his eyes to make sure he wasn't asleep, but when he opens his eyes he was still in the front of a bar with a knocked-pit Denji and Power.

"Y-you sure? I can get a taxi." Aki says to Makima, but she only shakes her head.

"I don't mind, plus it'll save you money." Makima says with a smile. "She drank a lot more beer than anyone at that bar...yet she looks like she's still sober." Aki thought to himself, and then another thought came to his mind, "She isn't human." Aki laughed to himself at that thought.

After Aki was done laughing at himself he looks at Makima, "If you wanna then it's fine by me." Ake says as he picks up Power. "Can you bring him back in the morning though?" Aki asks Makiam, who nods at his request.

Denji woke up in a nice-looking place on a soft bed, he looks to his right to see that the sun was up and shining away any darkness of the night, "Where the hell am I?" Denji looks around and finds that the room he was in isn't Himeno's place. When Denji was collecting his thoughts the bedroom door opens up. "Hey, Denji." Makima says while holding a plate in her left hand, "I've just made breakfast, care to join me?" Denji nods his head hesitantly.

Denji follows Makima into the next room which was the living room where a familiar hoard of dogs lay, "Oh don't mind them, they're still sleeping." Makima says in a whisper. "How the hell did she control those...Wait never mind."  Makima goes to the kitchen and Denji follows. "You don't mind having bacon right?" Makima asks, Denji only shakes his head.

The breakfast Makima made was simple, bacon, eggs, and toast, she even left her jams out so Denji could use them. "Thanks, Makima." Denji says with a smile, he started to spread the jams on his toast. 

"Denji, have you been enjoying staying at Aki's?" Makima asks Denji, who was about to take a bit out of his 'super-toast'. 

"It's good." That is all Denji said before he started to eat his toast. Makima waits for Denji to get done, her eyes unblinking as she stares at Denji, she lifted her hand...Denji quickly grabs it and pushes it down roughly. "Um..S-sorry." Denji says as he lets go of Makima's wrist. 

"Denji, what was that for?" Denji started to sweat a little as Makima stares at him.

"Da was...I didn't mean to hurt ya, it was like sumthing in my head kicked in." Denji says while looking away for Makima's glare. But something made Denji look Makima in her eyes, "Those...Those are Nayuta's eyes." Denji could only imagine Nayuta looking at him, and that made him tear up. 

Makima gets up and hugged Denji, who was breaking down in front of her, "Shh Denji it's okay, I know that you had a rough past." Makima starts to rub Denji's back. "This happened at her office too...Damn it! I can't keep letting Makima see me like this, a prey should never trust a hunter."  Denji pulls his head up to see Makima looking into his eyes.

"Makima...You always make me cry, 'n I hate it." Denji says while still looking into Makima's spiral eyes,  which were burned into his memory. There was a long silence between them, something that Denji was used to by this point, "I gotta go back home soon." Denji says as he breaks away from the hug. 

"Ohh." Makima says, looking surprised, Denji looks at her with an odd look in his eyes, "Sorry, I'm just surprised that you're calling Aki's place your home." 

Denji looks at Makima for a second and then smiles, "Yeah da's my home, coz my family is there." Denji looks at Makima's eyes one last time before going back, and he saw something cracked in there. 

When Denji got back home, he heard people talking amongst themselves, "Maybe it's Himeno." Denji opens the door to see Aki and Himeno talking, Power playing with Meowy, and Kobeni looking scared, "Yup I knew it...WAIT WHY'S KOBENI HERE?!" Denji looks at her.

"Heya Kobs." Denji says with a wave, and Kobeni waves back. Denji takes a seat on the couch, "So whatcha doin' here?" 

Kobeni grabs something from her pocket, "I-I came to g-give th-this back." She hands over Denji's phone. 

Denji grabs it with a toothy smile, "Thanks!" Kobeni started to blush and she whispered a 'you're welcome' to Denji. That morning was perfect in Denji's head, everyone he cared for was under the same roof, talking, laughing, and enjoying life, then a memory came to Denji, "Shit, ARAI!"

Denji asks for Arai's number from Kobeni, who give it to him, and he quickly makes a call, "Yo Arai, me 'n sume other people from Special Division 4 are comin' 'n hanging out at a restaurant...I want you to come too!...No I didn't puke on you...Umm, I don't how to tell you this but...You got a puke kiss from Himeno." An audible 'WHAAT?!' was heard from the phone.

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Denji is watching his friends talk among themselves, eating their food, and overall just enjoying the moment. Power was talking with her mouthful, Aki is scolding her, Himeno is laughing at them, and Kobein is eating her food quietly. The restaurant's door opens and Arai walks in, "Heya buddy." Denji says while resting his chin on his hand. 

"Hey, Denji." Arai takes the seat next to the blond boy, "Thanks for inviting me." Arai says with a smile. "A perfect afternoon." Denji thinks to himself, he was smiling along with everyone, enjoying every moment that he could before...

"You're sure are wolfing down the ramen here...Doesn't it taste awful?" Denji turns to see a man with sideburns sitting next to the window.

"When I say fuck off, take cover got it?" Denji whisper to Aki, who was about to ask something but Denji quickly cuts him off, "Just listen to me 'bout tis 'kay." Aki nods his head slightly.

"What's you two talking about?" The man asks, looking slightly angry. Denji gets up and walks next to the man.

Denji looks down at the man, "I heard sumthing from an asshole, I think 't was 'bout food 'if you only eat the same sorts of things when you're a kid, it dulls your sense of taste once you become an adult.' You know what I said to da asshole?" The man looks up at Denji, he puts his hand in his pocket. "FUCK OFF!" Aki quickly flips the table and everyone gets behind it, Denji punches the man in his face, which causes him to drop a handgun. 

"FUCK YOU SIDEBURNS!" Denji says as he pulls his cord, chainsaw rips out of his arms. 

"DENJI!" Aki stands up from behind the table, "GIT DA FUCK DOWN!" 

The man gets back up, he pulls his left hand off revealing a blade in his arm, "A weak punch like that isn't gonna put me down." In a blink of an eye, the man turns into Katana Man. 

The sound of metal clashing against each other was all the group heard as they hid behind the table. "What's going on Aki?" Himeno asks, Aki looks up to see anything, but as soon as he does an arm came flying at his face, he ducked down and the arm hit the wall behind them. "AKI WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!" Arai screams.

Denji was holding up the fight, he was able to cut off one of Katana Man's arms, but there were some deep cuts and even deeper stab wounds on his body, "I need some blood..." Denji looks at Katana Man, "There's a big blood bag." Denji rushes towards him, and starts to swage but not widely, he uses his left arm to slash up, and Katana Man blocks it, but then Denji's right arm comes down, cutting deep into his enemy's chest. Katana Man quickly backs up, getting ready to do his cheater move, "FUCKK OFF!" Denji gets ready. Katana Man disappears into thin air, and Denji swages his arm upward...Katana Man appears behind Denji, the chainsaw he swung with broke...But Denji held his other chainsaw out behind his back...Katana Man's top half slid off his leg.

Denji quickly walks to Katana Man's body and cuts off his last arm...Denji bits into it, drinking the blood from it. "D-Denji!" Aki got up from his cover and runs over toward Denji, "Call sum goddamn backup, we need to take tis guy in." 

Aki nods his head and starts to make a call on his radio, but then Denji shoves him to the ground...A gunshot is heard, and when Aki looks up he saw Denji's shoulder bleeding. "DAMN MOTHERFUCKS, THAT HURTS!" 

Denji looks up and sees Akane with two gunmen next to her. "YOU 'T'S VERY RUDE TO SHOOT SOMEBODY'S ARM WHILE THEY'RE FUCKIN' EATIN'!" Denji uses his right Chainsaw to stab the uneaten arm that lay before him, he bits one of the fingers off and swallows it. More gunshots follow, but Denji was able the use his Chainsaws as a shield, so he pushes forward and cuts the first gunman down, with one heavy kick to the other gunman's leg he went down. Akane tries to get close to Katana Man but a head flew past hers. "WHATCHA THINK YOU DOIN' GIRLY!" 

Akane keeps running but Denji quickly caught up with her, "Snake tail!" A giant tail comes out of nowhere, Denji tries to jump over it, but it was able to cut both of his legs off. "FUCKKK!" Akane is close to Katana Man's body, only a few more steps- She feels something wrap around her leg, "YOU FORGOT TO FINISH ME OFF!" Denji uses his chain to make Akane fall over, she tries to use another trick but Aki quickly knocks her out with an elbow drop.

Denji passes out.

Denji wakes up and feels a weight on his chest, "Pochita!" Denji cries as he sees his friend again, "Hey Denji." Pochita says with a cheerful tone. 

Even though Denji is happy to see Pochita again but he knows that the only reason he's here right now is to tell him something. "So what's goin' on?" Denji asks, and when he did it felt like the tone of the conversation changes.

Pochita looks at Denji and for the first time he looks serious, "Denji, you've changed the outcome of two people's lives...Some Devils ain't too happy about that, but don't worry I won't let them come near you." 

Denji looks at Pochita and smiles at him, "Thanks buddy, 's da all you wanna talk 'bout?" 

Pochita shakes his head, "No, I got some good news too! Remember when I took over your body?" Denji nods his head, "Well, I'm going give you all of my powers...If you need them." 

Denji was shocked to say the less, "What?! Why?" Pochita shakes his head with a small smile. "It's a backup plan if you need it." 

Denji slowly wraps his arms around Pochita's body and pulls him in for a hug. "Thanks, Pochita...Thanks for everything!" Tears begin to roll down Denji's cheeks, and Pochita licks them away. 

"Our time is up Denji, see you later." 

Denji couldn't say anything before a blinding light flashed in his face.

Denji wakes at the restaurant where he fought Katana Man, he sits up and sees Power looking at him smiling, "Denji I found one of your legs!" Denji looks down to see his left leg on the right side...."Power.."

Power looks at Denji, still holding a smirk, "Yes, Denji?" 

"Can you explain to me da fuckin' reason my left leg 's on my right side?!" 

"What are you ranting about? I clearly put your left leg in a better position to fight..."

"How da fuck did you not think, 'Hey wait 's tis leg da left one?' Coz 't's clearly my left fuckin' leg."

"Be grateful that I, the great Power, was able to find one of your legs." 

"What da fuck are you sayin'? They were cut off at da same time!"

"SO?!"

"THEY SHOULD BE RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER!"

"...."

Denji looks past Power and sees his leg being put in a bag, "HEYA WHAT DA FUCK YOU THINK YOU DOIN'?!" Denji was able to get up and hop toward the person who was bagging his leg.

After some DIY "surgery " Denji was able to do, put his legs back in place, while he was doing Aki explained that Akane had killed herself, but Katana Man was still alive. "Where 's he at?" 

Denji walks in front of a tie-up Katana Man, "Heya douchebag."  

Katana Man looks up at Denji,  "What the hell do you want?!" 

Denji sticks his finger down his throat and vomits up a finger, "I ate one of your fuckin' fingers, so here, you can have 't back." Denji couch and grabs Katana Man's left hand, he puts the finger back in its place.

Katana Man was about to say something but Denji cuts him off, "I know what's 't's like missin' bits of your body, thanks 't your grumps."

Katana Man lunges at Denji but the handcuffs stop him. " I don't give a fuck what my grandfather did to a piece of shit like you. You had a debt to pay, but you just kill him!" Denji just listens as Katana Man rants, "Why?! WHY THE FUCK DID YOU KILL HIM?!" 

"He had 't comin', he fuckin' killed me, and da only livin' thing I give a damn 'bout!" Denji looks down at Katana Man, "He never said sorry to me or Pochita, so why da fuck should I say sorry?" Tears start to fall out of Denji's eyes, "He took everything, and made my life a fuckin' nightmare, why should I be apologizing?!" 

"Cause you fucking killed him!" Katana shouts back, "A fucking dog kill-" Denji kicks Katana Man's face, knocking him out...

"I ain't no damn dog." 

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It's been two days since the fight with Katan Man, and the news spread amongst the divisions about how many of their co-workers died during the attack, this made the rest of the survivors want to quit, some even felt guilt about being saved by some of their comrades. Denji didn't care, he was smiling and enjoying the quiet of his home, Aki was busy cooking breakfast, and Power was still asleep. Everything was right with the world in Denji's mind, "I saved Himeno and Arai...Hell yeah, things are going better than last time! I even took out side-burns too."  Denji smiles as he took a bit out of his 'super-bread', "Aki," Denji says with a mouthful of jam, Aki stops and looks up to Denji, "You gotten anything from dat bastard yet?" 

"He told us about a building full of zombies, so we a going there in a day or two." Denji was confused, "Thought we were going clean the building out as soon as we found it...So why are we taking our sweet ass time with it?"  The quiet returns back to the small apartment...Until Power busted open her bedroom door. "I have awakened!" Power screams across the hall.

Everyone was at the table eating their breakfast, Aki was eating eggs and bacon, and Power got a bowl of cereal,  Denji was just enjoying the quietness, "Gotta enjoy this..." The phone starts to ring, Aki stands up but Denji was able to get to the phone first. "Denji!" Aki screams but Denji only puts one finger up to silence Aki. 

"Hello?" Denji asks with a huff, he could already tell who was on the other side of the phone. 

"Denji?" Makima sounds supires. 

"Yeah, it's me, Makima." Denji just wants to go back and watch tv. There was a long silence on the other end of the phone, Denji started to hear static, but Makima's voice suddenly broke it. "I want to meet you and Power in my office around 3, is that okay?" Denji knew what was waiting for him and Power later that day, "Should we go to Kishibe? I can handle myself in a fight, but I don't think Power can yet...Damn, I gotta get my ass kicked again?!" Denji was weighing the pros and cons of going with Makima and meeting Kishibe, he soon got lost in his thoughts, but Makima's voice cut in again, "Denji, are you there?" 

"Yeah, sorry, I was thinkin' 'bout sumthing. So, 3 huh? Yup, that sounds good, I'll tell Power." Denji hung up the phone before Makima could say another word. "DENJI!" Aki screams right behind the blonde boy. 

"What?!" Denji screams back, his scream louder than he thought. Aki stops, and for a second a look of shocked came across his face, but that fear soon turned into annoyance upon seeing Denji picking his nose. Aki sighs out of his mouth, "Don't touch anything with that finger."

A devilish grin forms on Denji's face, "Oh tis one?" Denji says while pulling a slimy booger out of his nose. 

Aki backs up, "GET THAT SHIT OFF YOUR FINGER NOW!" 

Denji ignores Aki's demand, he runs forward while doing so he also extends his arm too. Aki dodges Denji's attack, by quickly stepping to the side when the blond boy keeps running not losing any speed until he slams into the wall. Denji gets back up, but the pain in his head makes him feel dizzy, so he took a seat on the couch.

"Oww, my head." Denji moans his starts to rub his head.

Aki was grabbing a cigarette from his pack, "What did Makima want by the way?" 

Denji could only feel the throbbing of his head, but he still answered Aki, "She wants to meet with me 'n Powy...I think she said 'round 4." 

Aki looks at the clock in the room, "You and Power should start getting ready soon, it's already 12." 

Denji puts his head in his hand and moans, "Power you take your show first, 'kay?" 

Power started to pound, "I, the great Power, don't need to take a shower! My smell is enough to show my greatness!" 

"Power...People try to hold their breath when they're near you!" Denji screams.

"Lies, LIES! They hold their breath cause they are shocked to see such beauty in the flesh!" Power screams back.

Aki went outside for his morning smoke, not caring about the yelling match that was happening right behind him. 

 It's now 2 and Denji was walking next to Power, who was complaining about going to work while on their off day. They walk in front of a familiar building, a considerable sign  that has "Family Burger" on it, Denji's stomach growls, "Yo wanna get sum burgers here?" 

Power stops and looks up at the sign, after a few seconds she nods her head, "Yeah, I'm quite peckish myself." 

They walk in, and the cashier looks at Denji with an annoyed expression on his face, "Welcome back sir, you brought your girlfriend this time?" 

Denji looks at Power and then at the cashier, "Nah, she's my sis." Denji was shocked at how naturally that came out of his mouth. 

Power looks at Denji weirdly but he ignores it, "I'll have a..." Denji stares at the menu, "Just get me what I got last time, but add fries to it."

The cashier looks at Denji, "Umm sir, I don't remember your order..."

Denji's eyes light up, "Oh yeah...Umm can I git acheezeburgerwithsumfriestoo!"

After trying to understand what the blond had just said, the cashier writes down what he thinks the boy had ordered, then he looks at Power, "You?" 

Power hums, "I want everything!" 

Denji shakes his head, "She's gettin' da same as me." 

Power turns to Denji, she slams her hand down on the table, "No, I'll be getting everything on the menu!" 

Denji slams his hands down harder, "WE CAN'T AFFORD EVERYTHING, DUMBASS!" 

The cashier quickly ducked down as a paper holder is throw across the room, "YOU TWO GET OUT NOW!" 

Denji and Power stop fighting and turn their heads at the cashier, "What?" Denji starts to glare diggers at the poor man. 

Power starts to walk towards the cashier, "You can't tell us what to do, Lil man." 

Denji sighs, "I gotta stop her before she does something dumb to that asshole." Denji was about to walk to Power, when a voice from behind spoke, "D-Denji?" 

Denji turns around to see Kobeni sitting by herself at a booth, "Yo Kobs!" 

Kobeni waves her hand at Denji, who was making his way to her. When Denji sat down, Power was running after the cashier, who ran outside. Kobeni was eating the same thing she had last time, "S-so what are you and Power doing here?" 

Denji lays his head on the table, "Makima tell us to meet her around 3, got hungry and this was the only place nearby." 

Kobeni noted how Denji sounded tired, "Is everything alright?" 

Denji looks at Kobeni, and for the first time he notices how cute she is, and how the light behind her made her look like an angel, "Was Kobeni always dis cute?" Denji couldn't stop looking at her, wondering how he didn't realize how cute she was, and he was could bearly believe that she sitting in front of him too. "She's the only girl who said sorry for trying to kill me too."  Denji thinks through all the girls he met, "There was Reze, she was like a perfect girl to me...But then she tried to kill me...I still wonder what would have happened if we ran away."  Denji quickly shakes his thoughts away, "Not now..." Denji was enjoying watching Kobeni eat, and he didn't want to let any deep thoughts ruin it. 

After a few minutes of Denji watching her, Kobeni blushes, "Is there something on my face?" 

Denji shakes his head, "Nah, I'm just confused." 

Kobeni tilted her head, she was still blushing, "What are you confused about?" 

Denji laughs a little, "I didn't know how truly good you are 'till now, 'n how cute you are." 

Kobeni started to blush heavily at what Denji had just said, but before she could say anything Denji got up, "Shit, I gotta go now, talk to you later 'kay?" Kobeni just nods her head.

Denji is in an alleyway helping the cashier by getting Power off of him, "Power, we gotta go!" Denji was able to pull Power off the poor man, he started to run and makes it to a building.

Power huffs, "Denji why didn't you stop my hunt?" 

Denji sighs, "Power we gotta go to the meeting remember?" 

Upon hearing that Power starts to sweat, "Are we going to be late?!" 

Denji shakes his head, "If we ran for 't, then we could make 't." 

Makima was waiting in her office with her jacket on her, she looks at the clock, "3:59, they're late." Makima sighs and starts to think about what has happened ever since she met Denji, "Denji, why would Chainsaw man pick him over me? There's nothing unique about him, well besides his past and his relationship with Chainsaw Man." Makima starts to think back to when she first met Denji, "He looked scared, and the tension in the car ride was so thick, there was something else there too, I could just feel bitterness coming off of him. I remember how he hopped out of the car, and then a few minutes he came walking back with a little girl on his back...He's the only person who made me make a contract, it felt like he knew what he was doing...Denji what are you?" Makima's office door busted open and behind it was Denji, covered in sweat and his uniform untuck and his jacket was tied around his hip, Power on his back, "We made it." 

Makima looked up at the clock, "Well...You and Power are late, by an hour."

Denji huffs, "What da hell?! You said 4."

Makima shakes her head, "No I said 3..."

There was a silence that filled the room, and then Denji broke it, "DANM IT! I'm so sorry Makima." Denji saw Makima look at Power, "Don't blame Power, I fucked up...I hit my head after da call so I guess I gut da time wrong."

Denji waits for Makima to say something, but when she didn't, he looks up at her, "Makima?" 

Makima shakes her head, "Sorry Denji, I was thinking, anyways don't worry about being late."

Denji smiles at Makima, but he quickly drops it, "I can't feel that way around her.." Denji felt his legs give out, and he started to fall over backward, but he managed to turn around mid-air and fall flat on his face. Makima was surprised to see Denji saving Power from feeling pain by causing himself pain, "Denji are you alright?" Denji pushes Power off his back and gets up with a bloody nose, "Yeah...I think my nose 's broken." 

Makima walks over to Denji, she cuts her thumb and lets some blood come out, "Here drink." 

Denji looks at Makima for a few seconds, he grabs her wrist and brings her thumb close to his mouth, everything felt like it was much more slower then. Denji stops, "Are sure Makima?" Makima nods her head. Denji puts  Makima's thumb in his mouth and starts to lick her blood off of it, he felt his nose stop bleeding. Before Denji lets Makima's thumb out of his mouth, gently bites it, "Rember how this feels." Denji lets go, and Makima puts her hand to her sides. "What happened to Power?" 

Denji looks at Powe and sighs, "She passed out while running, but she'll be up soon." 

Makima nods her head, "Okay, well we'll be driving somewhere, so can you carry her to my car?" Denji shakes his head.

They're in a graveyard now, there are thousands of headstones, and they are walking toward a man in a black suit. Makima was explaining why they were there, but Denji didn't pay it no mind. Makima stops behind the man, "His name is-" 

"Shh. Shut it." The man cuts in. "Answer my questions." The man holds a finger up, "What did you think when your comrades died?"

Power was the first to answer, "I THOUGHT "THEY'RE DEAD!" 

Denji hums, "I didn't let any of them die...I don't care about the rest."  

The man holds up two fingers, "Do you want to get revenge on the enemy?" 

Denji started to think, "Do I want revenge?...No I don't, I have to kill Makima so I can have Nayuta." Denji answers, "Nope."

Power nods her head, "Same here." 

The man holds up three fingers, "Do you consider yourselves allies of humans or devils?" 

Power was the first to answer again, "Whichever one is winning." 

Denji hums, "Both." Makima stares at Denji, "What?" 

The old man turns around, and points to Power, "100 points." And then he turns to Denji, "100 points I guess." 

The old man continues to talk, but Denji already knew what was coming next. Makima left when the old ask her to, and as soon as she does, the old man wraps his arms around Power and Denji's neck.

"This gonna suck!"

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Denji is holding his fists up, his nose is broken again and blood was smeared on his top lip, but still, in this state- he was still standing. Power was lying dead on the ground, her neck was snapped, Denji wasn't shocked nor saddened- he knew that there was no saving her from the old man's sneak attack. Denji looks at the man in front of him, the tall old man, his teacher, who was holding a knife. Denji quickly dodges a strike from the old man, "You're a fast one." 

Denji didn't pay what the old said much mind, he was too busy forming a plan. Another bombardment of quick attacks from the old man follows, and with each one Denji dodges, but despite his best effort- a couple of hits made their marks on the blond's body. There were three deep cuts, one on Denji's left arm and the other on his right, the last attack was able to hit his face. The old man didn't slow down his attacks until kicking Denji- the blonde flew across the sky after a few seconds of being air-borning Denji landed into a pack of headstones. "You lasted long enough, I gotta kill you and be done with this fight." The old man said bitterly; sounds were heard behind the pile of broken headstones, but still, the old man didn't move. After a few seconds, Denji jumped out from behind, he was holding a cross-shaped headstone in each hand, " 'M GONNA FUCKIN' KILL YA!" Denji quickly dushes forward, the old man stands still. Denji throws the cross in his left hand, and the old man just cuts it in half with ease, but the blond keeps moving, once he's within range the young boy swages the cross in his right hand, but the old man grabs it. Denji tries the reach into the old man's jacket but a quick blade to the head stops him. 

Aki was sitting alone in his apartment, he watches as the time on his microwave slowly courted up from two-thirty to three, he sighs, "She's late again..." A knock is heard from the front door, Aki quickly gets up and opens the door, there stood Himeno holding a bag with a smile on her face, "The fun is here!" Aki sighs. 

It's now five and there's a drunk Aki and a drunk Himeno, they only drank a six-pack of beer and there are still two more packs left. Aki looks at the time, "Denji and *Hicup* P-Power should be back now..." 

Himeno takes a sip of her beer, "You...You reallllyyy care for those two~" Aki ignores Himeno and lays his head down on the table. "Come on! We aren't even finished yet!" Himeno whines. 

Aki only groans, Himeno was about to shake the dark-haired man but stops when he started to talk, "I...I've been thinkin' about what to do if I die...*Hicup* What would Denji and Power do without me? Can they even live without me?" 

The only thing Aki heard was a groan from Himeno, "They will be fine, cuz you ain't gonna die Aki...I won't let you." 

Denji and Power are standing in front of Kishibe- their bodies are covered in dirt and freshly healed cuts, it's night now and there wasn't any light besides that of the moon. Denji was shirtless because he tried to choke Kishibe with it, but that plan was quickly cut when the shirt was sliced in half. "I like being called Master, so you two will call me that from now on."  Kishibe turns his back to the two crazy teens, "I'm gonna sleep, I'll take you two back home." Denji's eyes widen, "He never did this before." But still, they follow Kishibe to his car, which was parked a mile away from the graveyard. Power jumps in the passenger side and Denji got in the back, they didn't put on their seatbelts.  

The only sound that was heard was the engine of the car, Denji stares out of the window watching the darkness, as if waiting for something to come out. Power was asleep and Kishibe was driving, Denji felt tired- the thought of sleep bought a smile to his face. "Don't go to sleep yet." Kishibe's voice quickly made Denji's eyes open. Denji turns to see that Power's throat has been cut and Kishibe is holding a knife, "We need to talk." 

Denji's eyes widen even more, "Di-Did he found out?!" 

Aki was now alone in his room, he was still drunk and his body was screaming at him to sleep but his mind was still full of energy, "I gotta be up when Denji and Power get back from Makima's...I would what they've been doing, hopefully, it wasn't causing trouble...What's taking them so long? What if they're..." Aki tries to change his thoughts to something else, "What should I make for breakfast? (What if they're...) I might make some pancakes for us. (...What if they're gone forever?) I might even put some chocolate in them too! Just like how Taiyo..." Tears started to fall on the sheets, "Please...Please don't be dead." 

Himeno was fast asleep on the couch in the living room.

Power was dead in the passenger seat, the car was still moving as Kishibe started to talk to Denji, "So what Devil did you contract with?" 

Denji started to sweat, "Poch- I mean da Chainsaw devil, master." Denji is used to calling Kishibe master by this point, he has done so much that it was like second nature.

Kishibe hummed and started to tap his finger on the steering wheel, "Does it so happens that the 'Chainsaw devil' can control time?" 

Denji's mouth opens but no words came out, Kishibes starts to talk again, "Denji it wasn't hard for me to realize something was off when you fought the Katana hybrid. Everyone who you're friends with was in the same place, at the time of the attack. Even though it was a workday Arai and Kobeni were there with you, outside of their patrol area." Denji started to sweat even more, "Denji answer me now...Are you from the future?"

Denji looks down at the carpeted floor of the car, "Umm...I kinda...I kinda went back in time..."

A loud sigh was heard, Denji looks up and sees Kishibe looking at the rear-view mirror, "Does anyone else knows?" Denji shakes his head, "Good, look I want you to keep doing what you're doing...But I want you to tell me everything you know right now." 

Denji looks at Kishibe and nods, "'kay, I da stuff 'bout Makima..." 

 Aki woke up around ten am, "My head hurts." He went out of his room and walked to the bathroom. After getting ready Aki went to the kitchen, when he got there he saw Denji and Power on the floor in front of the couch- they were sleeping. "Hey! GET UP!"  Denji and Power moaned, but they still got up from the couch. "Where have you guys been?" 

Power was rubbing her eyes, so Denji answer the question, "Makima let us meet sum ol' fucker named Kishibe...We got our asses kicked." Aki's eyes widen as he heard Denji say Kishibe's name. Denji notice Aki's reaction but he didn't say anything about it, instead, he gives the dark-haired man a devilish smile, "Did you miss us?" Aki follows Denji's gaze and saw a passed-out Himeno.

Aki started to blush, "I-I can explain!" But Denji just laughs and walks away to the bathroom. There was peace again when Denji got out of the shower- Aki had started to make pancakes, Power was playing with Meowy, and Himeno was dealing with her hangover. Denji started to think to himself, "Peace ...The peace and the smell of fresh Pancakes in the mornings, that's what keeps me going." Denji was about to seat on the couch when a knock was heard on the front door, "Shit."

Power stands up and was about to open the door, but  Denji quickly grab her arm, "Let me." Power just huffs and walks back to the spot where Meowy was at. Denji looks through the peephole- he saw a woman and a guy, both with scars across their face.  

"Uhhh?"

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It's been two hours since Aki left with the two random people at the front door. Denji doesn't remember them but apparently, they're from Kyoto- Denji doesn't trust them but still, he couldn't tell Aki what to do. Now Denji is sitting on the couch with Himeno, who is eating the leftovers of breakfast; Power is running wild in the apartment, she's throwing all the vegetables from the refrigerator onto the floor. Denji just started to listen to music, trying his best not to worry about Aki. 

Aki is where all the devil that the bureau caught is locked up, with him are Yutaro Kurose and Michiko Tendo; Aki needs to make a new contract with one of the devils there. "They said something about how the fox devil isn't strong enough." Aki sighs, " How long do I have to be here?" 

Yutaro turns around, "We'll have you make a contract with the devil in there," he points his finger at a long steel door, there was some rust and dust on its handle, "it's the future devil. There are only two people in the bureau contracted with it. One exchanged half of their lifespan. The other one gave up their eyes, their sense of taste, and their sense of smell." Yutaro  walks up to a keypad that's next to the door, with a few quick button presses the door opens, "If it takes interest in you, maybe you can get off cheaper." Aki walks in without hesitation. 

The door closed behind Aki, but he still didn't feel fear, after a quick look around he saw an eye in the middle of the dark void that was at the end of the room. After a few seconds, the Devil revealed itself- it reminded Aki of a tree; its feet were inexistent inside there were roots, looking at its chest would show a hole, and inside of it was an eye. Before Aki could say anything, the Devil spoke, "THE FUTURE IS THE BEST...THE FUTURE IS THE BEST!!" After a few seconds of yelling and dancing, the Devil looks at Aki, "YOU SHOUT IT TOO!" 

Aki didn't want to deal with the Devil's craziness, but there was a small part of him that wonder what will happen if follow along, he shouts, "THE FUTURE IS THE BEST!"

The Future Devil stops dancing, "Y-You say it!" 

Aki sighs, "I'm here to make a contract with-"

The Future Devil cuts Aki off, "YOU KNOW HOW LONG I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO SAY THAT?! IT'S BEEN FUCKING YEARS!"  Aki shakes his head, "That was a mistake." 

Denji was taking a nap and he was having a great dream too...But that was quickly cut short when he hear Power's panic scream. After getting up from his bed and walking into the living room, Denji saw Power near an open window. "Damn, keep quiet, I was havin' a good-" Denji stops upon seeing Power crying, "Ayo, what's wrong?!" 

Power wipes her tears away from her eyes, "M-Meowy jumped out tis window!" 

Denji stood there shocked, after all, Meowy doesn't run away from people or even get out that much..." Umm, look, Meowy is fine...Cats always land on their feet so they're fine." Power stops crying and looks up at the blond boy.

"T-Then we gotta go and find Meowy then!" Power jumps up and runs for the front door- but Denji grabs her arm before she could even touch the nob.

Power looks back and stares daggers at Denji, "Look, Aki 's gonna be pissed 'f you git out and cuz trouble...I'll look for Meowy, you have to stay here." Denji explains, but still, Power didn't back down.

"That's a stupid reason! I should come with you, Meowy only comes to me!" Power screams, and Denji sighs. "I got the ID thingy so if a human asks why I'm there with you, I can show them-" 

"Power...Fine, but I can't help ya if someone doesn't believe you." Denji didn't want Power to pass out by screaming too much, "Plus we can cover more ground..." 

"This is hell..." Aki thought to himself as The Future Devil was talking to him- he only talked about how the future was indeed the best...He talked about that for an hour straight. Aki couldn't take it anymore, so he cuts the Devil off, "Look, I'm here to make a contract with you." The Future Devil stops talking. 

"Oh, okay. Since we're buddies now, I want to see your future. I'll consider the details of our contract based on that!"  Aki stares at The Future Devil, "Hurry up and put your head in my chest." Aki continues to stare at the Furuter Devil..."I hate my life." 

Aki sticks his head inside the large hole in the Devil's chest. The whole thing only took a few seconds, which was filled with the Devil shifting left and right while humming, after it was done Aki pulls his head out of the Devil's chest. "Oh, how interesting,"  The Future Devil chuckles, "Here's the deal, let me reside in your right eye."  Aki looks up at The Devil's face, "Your face is saying is that all?"  The Devil chuckles again, this time quieter, "I wanna see your future with my own eyes, and the reason for that is because you're living with an anomaly...Your future hasn't been written yet." 

It's been two hours since Denji and Power left to look for Meowy- now Denji and Power are covered in cuts and bruises in an ally way due to running into Kishibe, who was walking to Aki's apartment to fight the duo- today wasn't their lucky day. Denji gets up first, "Ayo master, we ain't got da goddamn time fo' dis shit! We lookin' for Power's dumbass cat!" But Kishibe didn't change his mind.

"Well, you two better hurry and kill me then. The cat might be hurt or even killed by now." This sends Power into a mad charge at Kishibe, she starts to attack him wildly with punches and kicks. Denji stays back and watches, "I gotta do something to help Power out." And there proudly stood an aluminum trash can, and Denji looks at it with a devilish grin. Kishibe was about the pull out his trusty knife, but he felt something off, "Where's Denji-" When he looked behind him, there was a trash can flying towards him, and at that moment Power was about to deliver an uppercut- thinking fast, Kishibe pulls out his knife and staps Power's head, and he then raises his arm to block the trash can, but the one thing he didn't count on was Denji getting a good hit on his face. Kishibe took the punch, it didn't even hurt him, "Well done, you two don't need instruction every day now. Me and you will go once a week now...The fiend will still fight every day till she hits me." Kishibe drops a blood bag and walks away. "F-finally..." Denji mumbles to himself, he opens the blood pack up and pours it into Power's mouth.

It's now been three hours since Meowy ran away, Denji is on his own now- Power is back home resting- "I had to carry her back home and I still gotta look for this damn cat."  Denji had walked through so many allies, that now they all look the same to him, "Damn it! Meowy could already be outside of Tokyo..." Denji lends agist the nearby wall and slides down on the floor, "My fuckin' feet hurt..."  Denji whines to no one, he closes his eyes and inhaled- it was rough, like something was stuck in his nose, but he still didn't open his eyes. After a few minutes of lying on the ground, Denji slowly opens his eyes, "I can't sleep...Not yet." Slowly Denji stands up. 

Denji was about to exit the ally when he saw a familiar someone standing with bright neon lights behind them- if he didn't know who it was, he would've thought that there was an angel in front of him. "Denji, what are you doing out so late?" Her voice cuts through the air, it sounded like honey to Denji's ears. "I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I FUCKING HATE YOU!" Denji wanted to shout all of his feelings out- but when he saw her eyes, those eyes of Nayuta, he felt tired, oh so tired. 

"I'm just lookin' for Meowy...Power's cat." Denji said tiredly as he walks up to Makima, he stare into her eyes, "I want her back..." Denji caught himself before he started to cry, "No...no more crying."

To Denji's surprise, Makima looks away- she didn't make it obvious, she just looked slightly down from Denji's eyes, it was a blink and you'll miss it, but he didn't. "Ah, I was wondering why this cat I found looked so familiar to me," Makima reveals a cage that she was holding, inside of it was Meowy. "They were walking around near my apartment." 

Thousands of thoughts came to Denji's mind, each one asking more questions than answers- but there's one question that Denji focus on, "Why did Meowy run away? They never did that while I was taking care of them...Makima must be behind it."  Following that train of thought, he asked another question, "Why?"  Denji tried and give any possible answer to that question, but all of them had huge glaring flaws with them. That question finally got an answer when Makima spoke again, "Denji...After you and Division 4 clear the building out, I want to meet you at my office...Is that okay with you?" 

Denji stood there, a shocked look came across his face, but he quickly replace it with a fake smile, "Umm, sure, I don't see why I shouldn't go." Makima nods her head, and handed over the cage- for a second Denji could see a small smile on her face, but when he blinked it was gone, "Must've been in my head." 

It's now morning and Division 4 is in front of a huge building, Kishibe was talking with some police officers explaining what the plan is, "There's no plan, we just gonna cram everyone from The Special Division into the building." Nice and simple just how Denji likes it. Since there was no Katana Man or Akane Sawatari, Denji and Power were forced to go into the parking lot with everyone else. 

Beam was the first one to attack, going through the walls like water he managed to get ahead of everyone, he was attacking wildly and almost bite one of his teammates, Galgali - thankful he dodge the attack but unluckily for Beam, he also uppercut his chin. "THAT HURT!" Beam screams.

"Oh! My Bad Dude, I Thought You Were a Zombie."  Galgali quickly apologizes to Beam and went back to killing Zombies. After kicking one zombie's head off, Galgali saw a woman in the middle of a group of zombies, "Heya Miss Human Over There, You Should Probably Run Away. If You Get Bitten You'll Turn Into a Zombie." The woman looks up from the ground showing that she had a zipper going down in the middle of her face, "Oh You're a Devil, Huh!" The woman reveals eight long legs under her dress, she killed the group of Zombies within a second.

A Zombie's head flies through the air, landing on the shoes of the Angel Devil, "Ughh...It got my shoes dirty." Angel picks up the Zombie's head off the ground, "This thing is the worst." Angel takes a huge bit out of the Zombie's head. Aki was slicing some zombies up near Angel, "You there...Do you have a handkerchief?" Angel asks Aki- he grabs a handkerchief from his pocket and hands it to the Devil. "I'm surprised that you came close to me," Angel said while taking the handkerchief, "since your lifespan will shrink if I touch you." 

Aki just stare at Angel, "I figured it wasn't an issue through a cloth." Angel just sighs. Little did they know, a zombie was fast approaching behind them- but before it could even touch Aki, Denji stops it. 

"If ya thinkin' dis fucker 's an easy kill, then I'll fuckin' murder ya!" Denji shouts as he cuts the zombie's head off with his axe, Aki just watches with Angel.

Denji and Power were told to go up through the entire building to see if any Zombies got out, they entered the elevator and went up. "Hey Denji, what if there's like a super zombie up here?" Power asked with excitement in her eyes.

Denji just sighs, "I don't think there's sum 'super zombie' up here...But if there is, then we'll kill it." The elevator stops, Power gets ready to fight and Denji just unbuttons his shirt, the door opens to show there are no zombies at all, "Oh yeah...We already got Sideburns and that one girl is dead...No one can move zombies when they're nowhere near 'em." 

"WHAT?! WHERE'S THE HORD OF DUMB ZOMBIES, HOW CAN I SHOW OFF IF THERE'S NOTHING TO KILL?!" Power screams in Denji's ear. 

"Great...My ears are bleeding now."  Denji just grabs the radio and speaks into it, "Dis 's team DenPow, no sign of zombies." 

After a few seconds Aki's voice came through the radio, "Okay, we got the parking lot clear...Meet us back at the front of the building." 

"Let's go!" 

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Denji is outside the enormous building, police officers are already packing up and leaving, and most of Division 4 has gone too. Aki and Himeno were still in the building looking for anything to get a lead for the Gun Devil, Power was sleeping on a bench near the building. Denji was listening to music on his phone, humming along with the song, but then a sudden feeling of him being watched sent his mind racing, he looked around and after a few seconds, he saw Kobeni walking towards him. "Heya Kobs." Denji waves his hand and smiles at the small woman. 

Kobeni gives Denji a small meek smile, "H-H-Hey Denji, ca-can I sit next to y-y-you?" Denji nods his head, "Th-thanks." There they sit for what felt like hours, Denji stole a glimpse at Kobeni, "Was she always this cute?" Denji shakes his head, "Stop thinking about that shit man."  The silence came back, back it was quickly broken up by Kobeni speaking, "S-So, what are you listening to?" 

Denji looks at Kobeni, "I can't explain it...I forgot da band's name, I can let ya listen to it with me...If you want to." Kobeni started to blush, but she still nods her head- Denji pulls out one of the earbuds from his left ear and hands it to Kobeni, she puts it in. The song was simple, with a few brushes on the bass and a slow guitar playing only a few chords, then the drums kick in and after that, the lyrics were sung, "And so she wakes up In time to break down She left a note up on the dresser and she's right on time You don't know anything right or wrong."

Denji was humming along with the bass, Kobeni watches as the blonde smiled and tap his feet on the ground, something warm started to heat her chest. They sit there listening to the song, Kobeni was new to modern music since her family didn't allow her to have any phones or mp3s, the only songs she heard were either on the radio or someone singing on the streets. The song ended, "T-that was a nice song Denji, wh-who showed it to you?" Kobeni asks. Denji started to remember his past life and all the people he met, "They're all dicks but there was that one girl...What's her name?"  Denji started to think hard, "It started with an A...Fuck it, I can't remember it." 

Denji looks over to see Kobeni staring at him and then he remember her question, "Oh, a friend of mine showed it to me." Denji told partly the truth, he recalled that he went on a date with this girl but it didn't go anywhere. Kobeni let out a small yawn, "You sound tired, maybe you should head back home Kobs." Denji looks at the small woman next to him, she looks at him and nods- but before she left, Denji speaks up, "Umm, Kobs...Are ya quitting?" 

Kobeni stops mid-step, "Umm...I-I don't know y-yet." 

"I think you should quit dis job." Denji says while looking down at the ground. Kobeni stands there looking at the blonde boy, the air started to become thick, "I knew I wasn't going to be good at this job." Kobeni looks down slightly, she felt tears forming in the corner of her eyes. "I don't wanna see sum one like ya gettin' hurt doin' a job dat they didn't even want to do." Denji stands up and looks up at Kobeni, "So please, find ya a better job, one where ya can live without fearin' for yer damn life..." Kobeni saw something that she would have never thought she'll see, Denji crying. 

Kobeni did something that even surprise her, she hugged Denji, "I-it's fine Denji, I-I'm not gonna die any time soon." Denji leads into the hug, wrapping his arms around Kobeni's small frame.

Aki and Himeno are walking through the building, looking for anything that would help them get closer to the Gun Devil. They were walking up a huge staircase, at the top of it there was a hall with doors on each side; when Aki got to the top he felt something strange, tears starts to form in the corner of his eyes, "Why am I crying?" Himeno's footsteps were getting close to Aki, so he wipes the tears away and turns around to see a smiling Himeno. "I don't think we're gonna find anything for Gun." Himeno says while walking next to Aki. 

"We still got three rooms to search." Aki says, he walks to the door at the end of the hall and opens it. 

Kobeni had to leave, so Denji was alone again, "Well, that was something...At least Kobeni won't be in any danger from now on..." Denji blush when he remembers how warm she felt, "No, I can't start getting any funny feelings yet...I still gotta deal with Makima." Then Denji remembers what Makima asked, "Oh shit." He mumbles to himself. Denji grabs the radio, "Yo Aki, Makima asked me to meet up with her after dis shit was done, can I go?" It took a few seconds for Aki to radio back.

"Sure, just make sure to get back home before dark." Denji nods his head even though no one was there to see it. Denji whispers a 'thanks' before getting off the bench and walking towards the Devil Hunter's HQ. 

The walk was quiet and it gave Denji time to think, "Why does Makima wanna meet me? Shit, did she find out?"  Sweat starts to form on the back of Denji's neck, "No, there's like zero chance that she found out that I'm from the future...Wait in my other life, Makima asked me to go to the movies with her." Denji sighs and then starts to hum another song. 

Makima was sitting at her desk, she watches as the clock's hands slowly move inch by inch- she was there for the entire day, "He should be here any minute now..."  Makima taps her foot against the wooden floor, "My plains are not going as well as I like, and Denji is to blame...It's like he knows each of my moves and has already plain a way around them...He's starting to be a bothersome dog- Wait no, he's not a dog...I can't view him like that, if I do then that'll break our contract."  Makima sighs to herself. A light knock comes from the door, Makima sits up, "Come in."

Denji walks in, the air feels uneven, or that's what he thinks, seeing a seat across the desk help guild Denji into sitting on it, "So why did you wanna speak with me?" Denji looks into Makima's eyes; she does the same with him. There staring into Makima's eyes, Denji felt something, "I wanna puke." 

"Denji, I was thinking about our first meeting...Why didn't you want to be my pet? I treat my pets well and I feed them great food." Makima asks with a slight head tilt.

Denji sighs, "Cuz Makima, I'm a person...A person with feelings, like human feelings, ya know?" Makima nods her head slightly, "I'm sick of people lookin' at me 'n thinkin' that I ain't a person, dat damn gang did it 'n da people in dat town did it too!" At this point, Makima saw how heating Denji was getting, "I FUCKING HATE PEOPLE, why didn't they understand dat I needed help?" Denji whispers to himself, he puts his head down on the desk. 

Makima runs her fingers through Denji's messy blonde hair, "It's okay Denji, I didn't know you had this much anger built up...How about we go and watch some movies tomorrow?" All she hears are soft groins, "Is that a yes?"

Denji pulls his head up, "I gotta check in with Aki, make sure it's alright with him...Wait I thought tomorrow was a work day?" 

Makima gives Denji a soft smile, "I can take a day off, and I can let you have a free day." Denji lays his head down...."Let me tell Aki tomorrow." Denji groins and Makima smiles. 

"I'm so fucking sleepy...Is it nighttime already?" Denji slowly opens his eyes but quickly closes them back, "Yup it's nighttime...WAIT!" Denji shot up, "Oh IgottogosorryMak-" Denji runs into the wall and gets knocked out.

Makima watches as the blonde boy falls to the ground, but before he could hit it she caught him, "Denji?" All she hears are soft snores, "Oh you're asleep." Makima lays Denji on the ground, she grabs her phone and starts to call Aki.

"Hello?" Aki's voice was on the other end of the phone.

"Hey Aki, Denji passed out in my office." Makima hears a sigh.

"You want me to pick him up?" Aki asks. Makima thinks about it..."No, I just wanted to let you know that he's going to spend the night with me if that's okay with you." Makima waits for Aki to give her permission, which he did. 

"Warm, so warm...and soft...What's that smell?"  Denji opens his eyes, he was in a familiar-looking bedroom, "Oh no...Not again." Denji gets out of bed, being careful to not make a sound- he puts his tiptoes on the ground and quickly walks over to the door. He puts his ear agist the door, there was no sound, a grin slowly grows on his face as he opens the door...The grin quickly drops when he saw Makima on the other side of the door- she was sitting on the couch with a group of dogs around her, and there was a movie on the tv but strangely there was no sound coming from the tv. Denji puts one foot into the room and instantly the dogs turn their heads at the poor boy, "Oh Denji, you're awake." Makima said while a small yawn escapes her mouth. 

Denji stands still, a shiver running up his spine, "Yo Makima, why am I in yer house...again?" Denji looks over at the tv and knew what movie was on it, "The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari, I watch this one with Nayuta...Wasn't my thing."  The dogs started to bark.

"Quiet." Makima looks at the dogs, and they shut up- she looks at Denji, "Mind joining me for breakfast?" Denji nods his head slowly. 

After a few minutes of cooking, Makima came to the dining table and place a plate of bacon and eggs in front of Denji- then she took the sit next to him. "I'm not the best cook, but I hope this will fill you up." Makima says while leaning her head on her hand. 

With a few quick bits, Denji spoke up, "Dis is good, Aki is a bit better...So what happened last night?" Makima looks into Denji's eyes and smiles.

"You tried to leave my office, but you ran into the wall and passed out." Makima took a small bite of her eggs. Denji was shocked, "Am I really that fucking dumb?" Denji wants to slam his head on the table, but he didn't. After a few minutes of silent eating, Makima's phone started to ring, she gingerly got up and answer it. Denji wasn't far from the phone so he could what Makima said. "Oh, that does sound bad...Right just bring her to my office............... It's fine, I can do something about that." Denji's thoughts started their race, each one faster than the other, it didn't help when Makima walked back to the dining room with a smile on her face. "That was Aki-"

Denji quickly got up from his chair, "IS HE OKAY?!" It wasn't normal for Aki to call Maikma unless something bad had happened, even if that was the cause he only called her as a last resort. To say Makima was surprised wouldn't be lying, she knew that Denji was going to get attached to his "family", but she never thought that he would be openly worried about Aki, "That's great...That means it's gonna break him more when I take that away."  

"No, Aki is fine, he called about Power." Denji knew what Makima was talking about, "Shit, she drank too much blood."  

Power now having four horns was sitting in front of Makima, she was nervous. "These horns...you drank too much blood, didn't you Power?" Makima was inspecting the new horns that grew on Power's head. Denji was there in front of Power, feeling sorry for her, Makima started to talk but he ignores what she was saying. After a few slow minutes, Makima looks at Denji, "I need to borrow Power for a bit, do you mind?" 

Denji nods his head, "Just don't take too long, Makima." Denji didn't want to leave Power alone with Makima, but he couldn't do anything about it. 

Makima hums, "As for your buddies while I'm borrowing Power, one of them mentioned wanting to pair up with you." Denji looks at Makima and narrows his eyes at her, "Buddies...That means there's another person I'm being paired up with."  It didn't a second for a shark fin to come from the ground, and then Beam! 

"HIYA!!" Beam screams as he jumps onto Denji, and the blonde falls on his ass. "MASTER CHAINSAW! MASTER CHAINSAW!" The Shark Fiend shouts as he clings to Denji's shirt. Makima wait for Denji to yell for Beam to get off him but to her surprise, she heard laughter. 

"Heya, da name's Denji buddy." The blonde says as he gets up from the floor, he reaches his hand down for Beam- he grabs it immediately. 

After being helped up off of the floor, Tha Shark Fiend shouts, "MY NAME IS BEAM, FOLLOW MASTER CHAINSAW'S ORDERS! MASTER CHAINSAW'S WORDS ARE ABSOLUTE!" Denji chuckles at Beam. "At less, I know Beam won't try and kill me."  The door opens up and footsteps are heard walking into the room, Denji looks behind him and saw a familiar small brown-haired girl, "K-Kobs?!" 

Kobeni meekly looks at Denji and blushes, she gives the blonde a small smile, "H-Hey Denji...Looks like we're buddies now." Denji shakes his head and when he didn't wake up...He punches his face, "Nope this isn't a dream."

"I thought you were buddies with Arai." Denji looks at Kobeni for any answer, but none was given. 

Makima smiles, "Denji, here in Division 4 we change buddies every once a month, to see who works better with who." Denji looks at Makima with a confused look on his face, "So how did Aki 'n Himeno stay buddies for so long?" 

"They have shown that they work best together, but since we got new fiends we have to change things up to see if there are any better opinions, so as of now Aki's new buddy will be the Angle Devil and Himeno's will be the Spider Devil." Makima made up some bullshit on the spot and Denji knows that she did.  Makima orders Kobeni and Beam to go and rest for the day, which leaves her alone with Denji. 

Denji didn't want to stay long with Makima, he just wanted to go home and sleep, "Denji, why the long face?" Makima leans close to the blonde's face, "Was I frowning or something?" 

"What do you mean? I'm feeling great." Makima looks into Denji's eyes, he felt like she was challenging him so he stare back into her eyes........Makima looks away and pulls out her phone, "Oh Denji, it's only 7:30 am, do you wanna go to the movies with me today?" 

"I sware to fuck, I'll bite off my tongue if Makima even asks me if I wanna go out with her one more time." Denji didn't want to be in front of the theater waiting for Makima, but he did said that he would go to the movies with her...Denji wanted to punch himself. He checks his phone, "It's 8:30...She's late." Makima said that she would be there at 8, "Even in my first life I was the first one here." Denji sits down on the curb, "I remember taking Nayuta to the movies for the first time..." Denji chuckles as he remembers Nayuta pouting about how she wanted to dogs to watch the movie with them. 

"What's funny Denji?" The blonde jumps up and turns to face the source of the voice.

"Oh hey, Makima." Denji puts his arms down to his side. Makima smiles as she checks her phone...Her smile drops when saw the time. 

"I'm sorry Denji for being late. I got caught up by getting ready for our date." Denji's muscles tense up for some reason when she touched his left shoulder.

They went into the theater and took their sat...

"3...2....1...*BEEP*"

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Denji is sitting in the middle row of an almost full theater, next to him is the woman that took everything away from him, Makima. "Master Kule what are you doing?!" The angle on the movie screen said dramatically, which causes the people in the theater to laugh, but Denji didn't laugh, "People find this funny?" 

Makima didn't laugh either, "This is a bad movie." 

After the movie, Makima and Denji went to a nearby cafe. Makima checks the time, "The next movie is going to start in 20 minutes." She looks at the blonde and smiles. They order two small coffees and a sandwich. Denji give his opinion on the movie while eating, "I didn't really git dat movie, it was bad jokes after bad jokes...." Makima takes a sip of her coffee and lets Denji continue, "But still at least it gotten most of da people laughing." He stops talking and finish his sandwich, and Makima finishes her coffee.

"It wasn't very interesting, the jokes were well thought out but the acting made it fall apart, but the cinematography was good, it still didn't make up for the overall quality of the movie." Makima explains to Denji, who seem to listen while staring at his  untouched coffee. Makima stopped herself from continuing her rant and ask the blonde a question, "Denji, why haven't you been drinking your coffee?" 

"It's...It's not really my thing ya know? It's bitter and shit." Denj coldly responds to Makima's question. For the first time, Makima huffs, she grabs some cream and sugar across the table and pours them into Denji's coffee -slowly turning it into a creamy color inside of its original blackness- she pushes the cup next to Denji, "Try this." 

The blonde stares at the cup, "I've tried coffee with sugar...but not that cream shit." He grabs the cup and slowly brings it up to his mouth, with a few quick sniffs he decides it was different enough to try, so he takes a sip...And then other...And another. Within a few seconds, Denji had completely drunk all the coffee and was carving more.

"Was it good Denji?" Makima asks, the blonde nods his head, and for the first time he saw a smile, one that didn't look fake. "Shall we see the next one, Denji?" Makima asks with the same smile on her face, Denji felt weird but he agrees to watch the next movie. 

The next movie was called "Last Note". Denji was sitting in the same spot as last time, Makima was next to him again. He watches as the main character is forced to kill one of his friends to stay undercover, the audience cried -Denji and Makima didn't. They were back at the same cafe. Makima order a coffee -the same as before- but Denji didn't order.

"I didn't like dat one either...Da whole thing 'bout da main dude killin' his friend felt forced, like the reason for killin' him was bad ya know?" Denji rubs his chain, "But I did like da message in it, 'bout not giving up even if sumone lost everythin'." 

Makima hums, "I'm not really a fan of tearjerkers." Denji nods his head. The redhead continues her rant, "But I do agree with you, I think the message of the movie is important and I also liked it." Makima smiles at Denji again, and he felt weird again.

They watched movie after movie, each one was torn into by Makima but sometimes she agreed with Denji always, the blonde always felt weird everytime the redhead give him a genuine smile. Night slowly came and the city went quiet. Makima and Denji are outside now, they was sharing a hot chocolate.

"This is the last movie." Makima said while handing the cup to Denji, who took it, "The reviews for this one say it's a bit complex and hard to follow but..." She looks at the blonde, "Do you want to watch it?" 

"I'm down." Denji took a sip from the cup and hands to Makima...She takes it with a smile.

Denji already knew what movie they were watching just by the first few minutes, Ballad of a Soldier. "It's still pretty good even though this is like my second time watching it." The only reason he remembers the film so well -where he could even remember every character's name- was because of what he saw Makima do while watching Alyosha reunited with his mother.

Makima was pleasantly surprised by Ballad of a Soldier, she was interested through the entirety of the film...Then the ending happened, the hug between Alyosha and his mother, "Such comfort, and reassurance, people only display such things with people whom they love..." Tears start to form in the corner of her eyes. Makima expected Denji to look at her with teary eyes like hers...But she didn't feel any sense of being watched, so she side-glace at Denji and found the most surprising sight, the emotional boy that she saw cry firsthand when it came to random things,wasn't shedding any tears at all; his face wore a bored expression, and then she realizes something...

Denji was holding the tears back when he saw the hug something about it reminded him of Nayuta, "Goddamn it!" Images of him hugging a sleeping Nayuta started to flash in his head...But he didn't shed any tears, he hold in all those emotions. 

The moon hangs high in the sky, and Denji is walking home alone. After the movies, Makima said she had to go somewhere and left Denji all alone...with all those emotions. A feeling of something going up his throat made Denji run into an ally and he puked. 

"Looks whatchs we gotta here." Denji turns around to see three punks. 

"What da fuck?" Denji mutters as he wipes some of the vomit off his lips. 

The three punks laugh, "I guess we got ourselves a drunk kid." 

"Just hand over your cash...No one here has to get hurt." one of the punks was holding a metal pipe. 

Denji try to walk out of the ally, but then he felt something coming from his side, and he caught it. "What da hell." Denji look to his side and saw that a metal pipe was in his hand, bent from his grip. 

"Shit, c'mon guys this kid isn't right." Denji heard a pair of footsteps running away, he turns around to see one of the punks run away. 

"Fuck, you little shit!" One of two reminded punks blindly rush towards Denji, he was holding a switchblade...It stabbed into something. The punk opens his eyes, and he saw blood dripping down a hand, and then he felt a punch on his face. 

Denji looks at the blade sticking out of his hand, "Dis doesn't hurt as much then..." Denji trails off and sees the last punk left. If on instinct, Denji pulls the blade out of his hand and throws it at the last punk's leg.

"OH, MY GOD!" The punk screams in pain as the blade stubs through his leg, Denji looks over at the unconscious punk and picks him up from his shirt. 

"Here, take yer friend 'n fuck off." Denji said while tossing the unconscious punk to the bleeding punk. 

After all that, Denji was still thinking about Nayuta, and when the two punks left (one was carrying the other) he fall on his knees and started to cry. Denji started to punch the ground, and his fist begins to bleed. After a few minutes of whaling and screaming in pain, Denji stops punching and stands up, "That smell." A bitter smell started to taunt Denji's nose, so he follows it.

It took Denji a while, but he found out where the smell was coming from. A small cafe and it looked familiar to Denji too, "Wait this is..." A purple-haired girl was walking out, holding two garbage bags in each hand.

"Reze." Denji mumbles, the girl stops and looks at the blonde. 

"Do I know you?" She asks...Denji falls onto the ground. 

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There was darkness and he couldn't feel anything, as if everything that happened before-since birth was all a dream. Denji opens his eyes expecting to greet by Reze...But when he looked around, his gut dropped. "Dis...Dis is my apartment..." Denji mutters to himself as looked around the room he was in. 

It was small-the room-only having enough space to fit two futons, Denji looks at the empty one next to him, and he place his hand on it, "Still warm...That means Nayuta woke up a few seconds ago..." He gets up from the futon and went to the door. Braking was heard on the other side, and he knew already knows what was going to happen if he opens the door...But he still does. 

A hoard of huskies jumps on the blonde, but he didn't push them off even though they started to lick his face, Denji just let the dogs get bored with him. They did after a few close French kisses...Everything feels real for him, he could feel the dog's saliva on his face, and he could even feel the warmth from their bodies..."Was all dat...a dream?" Denji said to himself, as he reached up to the roof...Tears start to form in the corner of his eyes. He hears someone walking towards him, so he quickly wipes the tears and stands up. 

"Denji, bro, I'm hungry!" A black-haired girl said, her hair woven into a braid flung over her shoulder, and she was also still in her pajamas. Denji looks into her eyes and stares into them...He smiles and pats her head. "Are you feelin' alright?" She ask while the blonde quickly embrace her into a hug. 

"Wanna skip school today?" Denji asks Nayuta while still hugging her, she was about to protest but when she saw his puffy red eyes...Her heart stuck and she only nodded her head. 

The apartment was quiet, the dogs were all gathered around Nayuta who was watching tv in the living room. Denji was making breakfast, it was more like a food buffet; he made pancakes, muffins, bacon, and eggs. After an hour, Denji yells for Nayuta to come into the kitchen. 

"Bro, is it my birthday or sumthing?" Nayuta would ask as she see the amount of food in front of her, Denji would only respond with a smile. 

They are walking down the street to the ice cream shop, it was Nayuta's idea. When they reach the shop Denji would get anything that the girl asked for, which cost him a lot of cash, but still he smiles. Nothing could bring Denji's mood down, no, he started to do what he has done for years, ignoring the pain in his chest and the memories. 

"There was sum kid that lived his whole life in a dream, maybe dat's what happened to me?" Denji tried to find a rational explanation for what he just went through, and then a random poem started to come to his head, "Am I a Man”, he thought, "who dreamed that I was a butterfly? Or am I a butterfly, dreaming that I am a man?" He doesn't know why that pome came to him, but when it did the whole world felt off. 

The blonde sat there on a bench, a frown on his face, he was holding his ice cream corn loosely. All of that starts to make Nayuta frown too, "Bro, is sumthing bothering you?" She would ask the blonde.

He blinked a couple of times and looks over at her, "Yeah, sorry I was thinkin' 'bout sumthing..." He gets up from the bench and holds out his hand to the girl, she grabs it. As they were walking out of the park, a group of people came running in their direction screaming, "Looks like I gotta do sum work...." Denji said with a frown. 

"DIRTY HUMANS! BOW BEFORE THE GREAT WING OF-" The devil couldn't finish its sentence before its head was cut off, and behind the dead devil was Chainsaw Man holding a crushed ice cream corn. Everyone watches in awe as Chainsaw Man didn't run off like he usually did after killing a devil, this time he stood, and the neck of the devil started to bleed and which causes it to rain red...After what felt like an hour someone cheered and then another, the entire crowd of people started to cheer for Chainsaw Man, and yet he didn't move...Some teens walk toward the devil, but they stop as a little girl walks up to him, "Bro?...." She asks.

Denji snaps out of his head and looks around, he felt someone's hand on his, and he looks down to see Nayuta, she was talking but he couldn't hear her, and then a voice came into his head.

"ONE"     

He saw himself in a booth with a purple-haired girl standing over him...His head hurts.

"TWO"     

He saw himself on a train, he had an eyepatch that was covering his right eye, he was also wearing a green jacket, and on his lap was Pochita...His heart burns.

"THREE"    

He saw himself dying in Aki's arms, tears in his eyes as he yells at the sky...His heart feels cold.

"FOUR"

He saw himself with a girl, they looked happy together, there was also Nayuta but there were other girls there too, and they all looked happy, like a family...His heart cried out.

"FiVE"

He saw himself dress up like a thug, Power and Aki were also there in similar attire...His face smiles.

"SIX"

He saw himself with a pink-hair girl, he didn't know her but they looked close...His mind breaks.

Thousands of images flashed before his eyes, each one had a number, and each one was different, some were happy while others were a lot sadder than his usual life...After what felt like years, all of them stop, Denji couldn't feel his body, he couldn't think or see, hearing was long gone and yet he could hear that voice. He was shown a variety of lives, he saw hell and heaven back to back, he learn some much and yet so little, he was he and yet he could think of himself as one no more...And then the voice asks a question.

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Denji woke up inside a booth, and above was a purple-haired girl, who smiles at him. He couldn't think, but he reached up towards her hand, and then he saw his left hand had bandages wrapped around it. 

"Thanks." The blond said with a weak voice, his throat was dry and his head was hurting, he turn his head to face the window, "How long was I out?" He asks while lifting his body.

The girl hums to herself as she looked at a clock that was behind the cash register, “I think three hours? I quit counting after the first hour.” She said with a smile. The blonde huffs and stands up, to the girl’s dismay, “I don’t think it’s a good idea to be moving after how much blood you lost.” She said, her hand reaching up and grabbing his…He pulls away.  

“I gotta go home or my roommate will be hella piss at me.” Denji said while walking towards a wooded door, but before he could open it, the girl spoke up:

“How did you know my name?”

Denji stops, he starts to sweat a little bit, “Fuck, I need to come up with something quick!” He try to come up with something that would make sense, but none of what he came up with would explain why he called her name….And then he turns around with a smile, his face blushing, “I was tryin’ to say restaurant but I couldn’t say it right, n’ I also lost a bunch of blood too! So I must have slurred my words a bit…” He lied through his teeth, and yet he still have a smile on his face. 

“Oh, that makes sense, it would be weird if you knew my name even though we just met a few hours ago…Well my name is Reze, what’s your name?” The girl asks with a small blush on her face. 

To say Denji didn’t blush back would be a lie, his face reddens as he induces himself, “Da name’s Denji.” He said while extending out his hand, Reze quickly grabs it. 

It was morning now, and Aki was cooking breakfast, Power was still gone, and Denji was watching the dark-haired man cook…It was perfect silence, the only sound was that of bacon grease popping, and then Aki spoke, “Denji, what happened last night?” He asks while still focusing on cooking. 

The question was to expect due to his bandages hand and how late it was when he returned home, but  Denji’s sleepless mind didn’t come up with any lie or excuses so he told Aki the truth, “Sum punks attacked me after I went to see sum movies with Makima, one of ‘em got my hand with a knife…” His voice was tired and his eyes were closed as he let his head rest on the table. 

 Aki hums as he turns the oven off, “Did you kill any of them?” He asks, his tone didn’t care any weight to it, as if he is just asking about the weather. 

“No, but I did fucked two of ‘em up, but one got brains n’ ran away like a lil bitch.” Denji said with a chuckle. 

After that, they ate their breakfast and went to work. Today is the first day for them to work with their new buddies…Denji still didn’t understand why Aki and the Angle were paired up, Himeno was still alive, hell even  Arai could’ve been paired up with him.

But the blonde didn’t let those thoughts consume his mind, no, he was too busy doing his patrol while trying to keep Beam quiet while it was raining. 

“WOO, WATER, WATER!” Beam screams as he resurfaces from the ground. Kobeni got scared by the sudden screaming, and Denji just scoff in announce…But he didn’t dislike how happy Beam looked, he was annoyed by the people staring at them. 

“Yo Beam, keep yer voice down man.” Denji said with an annoyed tone, the fiend quickly nod its head and went back down to the ground. 

Kobeni was too busy watching the fiend going into the ground to see the small crack on the sidewalk… “Ahhh!” She yelp as she fell down. 

Denji heard a yelp behind him and as he turns around, he saw Kobeni on the ground, so being the nice guy that he is, he crouch down and reach out his hand, “Are ya alright?” He asks, Kobeni only nods her hand as she grabs his hand. 

The blond looked for anything that would get them out of the rain, he eyed a phone booth. Being quick with his movement, he guides Kobeni and himself towards it and opens the door, “We can stay here ‘till da rain dies down.” He said while holding the door open for Kobeni, who quickly went in. 

There was barely enough room for them, Denji could feel Kobeni’s breath on him, and she could feel his. “Well at least it’s just da two of us, if Beam was here then we couldn’t breath.” Denji chuckle at his joke, but Kobeni’s face was red. 

“He’s so close to me.” Kobeni’s mind quickly starts to think of all the things that could go wrong, “What if we flip due to much weight on one side? What if a killer comes here and kills me?! What if…” Her worries start to fill her head with images of death or the awakeness of the situations she’s in. 

“Wait…Is this where I met-” Before Denji could even finish thinking, the door to the booth opens, “Is there enough room for me?” A girl asks, the blonde turns his head and saw Reze dripping wet due to the rain…

“Umm, just da two of us can barely fit in here…” Denji mumbles but then he looks at Kobeni, “I guess I can move over…” He says while moving to the corner of the booth, making just enough room for Reze to come in. 

“Thanks, Denji.” The purple hair girl said with a bright smile. Kobeni looks at Denji, he just sighs and shrugs his shoulders, or try to at least. 

After a few quiet minutes Reze asks a question, “So is she your girlfriend?” Her voice had a charming tone to it. Kobeni starts to blush even redder and Denji was taken aback by the question. 

The silence is back but this time it had a weight to it as if every second left unspoke was an agreement to Reze’s question, but then Denji spoke up, “Nah, we’re friends…I think?” He didn’t say sure, but once he saw Kobeni nodding he knew that was the right word to describe their relationship, “But I don’t feel like that’s the right to say it…” Even though what he said was confirmed with Kobeni’s nod, Denji didn’t feel like he didn’t give what he felt much weight to it. 

It stopped raining, and the uncomfortable crampiness became less and less as Reze walked out, then Kobeni, and then Denji. “Hey Denji, you should come over to my workplace, you should know where it is.” Reze said with a smile. 

“Why should I?” Denji asks coldly, his usual carefreeness wasn’t in his voice at all. 

“You seem like a fun guy to hang out with, if you come then I’ll give ya a treat.” Reze said while walking away. 

“‘Kay fine, I’ll stop by after I’m done workin’!” The blonde shouts as the purple hair girl walks out of his view. 

Denji huffs as he turns around to get back on the patrol route, but then he sees Kobeni still blushing madly, “Yo Kobs, are yer sick?” He asks while putting his hand on her forehand.

Kobeni blushes even more, she starts to stutter, “W-W-W-Who was t-t-t-that girl?” 

“Reze? She fixed my hand up last night…” Denji explains, “Sum punk stabbed my hand, and she fixed it up.” 

“Huh?” 

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"Is he really my target?" Reze thought to herself as she got ready to start her shaft, "He looked so dead...This should be easy..." She smiles as she walks into the cafe while wearing an apron over her usual clothes...Her smile dropped when her boss started to talk. 

"You're late. I'm not paying you for the time you weren't working." He said with a sigh as he put a cup of coffee next to two others. 

“Cheapskate,” Reze said loudly, not even trying to hide the fact that she just insulted her boss in his face. 

Her boss sighs again, “Two coffees and one water for table four.” His voice was tried.

Reze grabs the tray with the orders on it, she mumbles a couple more insults at her boss as she walks towards the table. She saw two familiar faces and one weird-looking shake-dude thing when she got near the table. 

“MASTER DENJI IS THE BEST!!!” Beam shouts as he hugs Denji’s left arm. 

The blonde just huffs but he doesn’t make any move to get the shake fiend off his arm, he looks at Kobeni, who is sweating crazily. 

“Is there sum wrong Kobs?” Denji asks.

“I-I thought we were still on the clock…” Kobeni said with a shaky voice. 

“Yeah, we are…But I thought taking a break would be a good idea.” Denji said with a toothy smile. Kobeni didn't like the idea of going against orders, but Denji's smile helped her nerves a little. 

Reze puts the tray down, “Are you suuurrree that you two ain’t a thing?” She asks with a smug smile on her face. Denji looks up at the purple-haired girl and smiles at her too.

“I thought we have already been over dis, we ain’t dating.” The blonde said with a sigh. 

“MASTER DENJI, IS SHE YOUR LOVER?!” Beam shouts his question while pointing at Reze, who immediately blushes.

“W-what?! No!” She said with a red face. 

Denji starts to laugh while he grabs the drinks and passes them out, “She’s a really good performer…She could be a movie star if she really wants to."  Reze's fake smile is on par with Makima's. Denji gets his coffee and starts to put all the cream on the table in it, and then he quickly chugs it down with one quick gulp. 

After finishing their order, Kobeni and Beam went to the front door, but Denji was still sitting at the booth. "Denji?" Kobeni asked as she saw the blonde spacing out, he didn't say anything back, she was about to shout but the Shake fined beat her to it. "MASTER DENJI!" 

Denji blinks and turns towards them, "Oh sorry, I'm gonna stay here for a bit." 

"B-b-but we still have a the-" Kobeni was cut off by Beam's screaming, which caused her to jump, her feet tripped on each other... Kobeni started to fall "Oh no, oh no, ohnoohnohnoohnoohnoohnohnoohnoohnoohnohnoohnoohnoohnohnoohno!"  The floor got closer and closer with each passing millisecond, she closed her eyes and accepted the fact that she was going to embarrass herself on the first day with her new buddies, in front of the person who she looked up to... She closes her eyes, "At least I won't see his face..." 

The sound of a table being flipped was heard, but Kobeni didn't give it any thought...Until she felt herself on something warm, and then she heard heavy breathing...She slowly opens her eyes to reveal that she is in an embrace of a hug. "I gotch ya there Kobs." Denji gently says, when Kobeni looked up, she saw a somber smile on the blond's face. For once she saw tiredness in his eyes, his messy blond hair seemed more cluttered than usual, and there was the air around him, it felt more thick and sickly, like smoke...And yet Kobeni didn't dislike any of that, but still, all those things seemed more predominant. 

"See, I knew you two were a thing~" Reze said with a smirk on her face. Denji huffed and Kobeni hid her face deeper into the blond's chest, which didn't help but make Reze's smirk. 

Aki is at a park, he's looking at an empty pack of cigarettes, with a huff he throws the pack away in a nearby trashcan. Angel is sitting next to an ice cream truck, finishing his fifth cone, his eyes are half opened, and looks like he's about to fall asleep any second. It was their first patrol together and it wasn't going well, Angel had been stopping with any chance he could get, Aki was beyond pissed but he kept his cool for the most part, primarily due to Makima's order. 

"Hey, you've already had three, that should be enough. We haven't made any progress with our patrol, and we're gonna be late, so pick up the pace." Aki says with a deadpan face.

"It's tiring to eat ice cream...Even eating things takes stamina." Angel says with a bored tone, but there is a slight hit of disbarment in his voice too, the fiend continues to speak, "I don't really wanna work anymore today."  

That reminds Aki of Denji a bit, ever since he met the blond everything seemed to go out of control and Denji was the head of it, but yet, he had this aura to him, something that was off...Nothing about the blond made much sense to Aki...But Aki quickly shakes those thoughts away, "Maybe I can bribe this fiend like Denji and Power..." And then he got an idea, "Hey, if we get this patrol done on time, then I'll take you out for dinner."  

Angel looks up and hums, "But eating takes too much work to do." Aki sighs and mumbles under his breath, "Mmmm, I got take a different approach than just offering food...." If the lightbulb that shows when someone comes up with an idea were real, then Aki would have a bright yellow bulb above his head right now. 

"Have you ever played video games?" Aki asks while taking a seat next to Angel on the uncomfortable park bench. 

"Umm, no." Angel says with a yawn, he stretches his arms above his head, "Never got a chance really." 

With that Aki makes his move, "Well, I can probably afford to buy you a Gameboy and some games with it...Only if we get our patrol done." 

The fiend looks at the man with a bored face, and yet the idea of games did pique his interest, so after a few seconds of weighing the pros and cons, Angel nods his head slightly, "Alright." 

Aki felt like he cracked a code, a cheat that no one knew about, a small smirk formed on his face, "I wonder how everyone else is dealing with their new buddies?" 

"Huh?"

Denji went through the same beats as last time: Reze offers to take Denji to school at night, he says sure, break into a random school at night with her, he holds her hand while they walk around the empty school, they go into a classroom and goof around in there, and now they're in front of the pool. Reze feels the water, "Heh, it's so cold!" 

"Oh?" Denji walks and crouches down next to Reze, he lets his left-hand drop into the water, causing a small splash, and as soon as his hand is under the surface of the water a strange sense of nostalgia. "Yer know, I'm a pretty good swimmer." The blond boldly says with a smirk. 

"Let's see about that then~" 

"'Kay, first one to swim to da other side 'n back wins." 

Reze nodded her head and started to unbutton her shirt, and to her surprise, Denji started to do the same. It took her a while to get fully undressed, but Denji had already beat her to it, as if the act itself was a race and he had won. When she got naked she thought that the blond would be flustered and at least have a blush across his face, but he wasn't. 

"Are ya ready?" Denji asks with a smile. 

"Isn't he being too nonchalant about this?" Reze thought to herself, but her role was supposed to be the wild and yet girl-ish girl that makes the boy fall for her, but now it feels different, but she didn't think about who Denji is or how he would react, but least she had made him think that she likes him...Right? 

"Umm, Reze?" 

The purple-haired girl snaps back from her thoughts and sees a fully stripped Denji in front of her, "Oh sorry, y-yeah I'm ready." 

Denji smiles and gets himself ready near the edge of the pool, Reze joins him. "On da court of three...One...Two..." Reze gets ready, "THREE!" The two jump in and start to swim. Despite the cold water Denji had already gained the lead and wasn't slowing down, but Reze was right behind him as soon as they got to the end of the pool, Reze took a deep breath and went underwater, then she brought her knees to her face and does a flip, her feet touches the wall then she kicks off.

After a second Denji sees Reze's back in front of him, a small smile creeps on his face and he picks up his speed. Denji was able to catch up with Reze but now they were six feet away from the edge of the pool, and both teens reached out their arms...They felt a drop of rain hit their hand.

Aki takes a sip of beer, the feeling of the cold drink runs down his chest. "So, how's your new buddy?" Himeno asks with a smile, her face is red due to her drinking as well. 

"He's already pissing me off." 

"Oh?" 

The dark-haired man looks up from his drink and looks at the woman in front of him, "I had to buy him games and a Gameboy to get him to do anything." 

"Sounds like you have another umm, what's his name?" 

"Denji?" 

"Yeah! That's the kid, sounds like you have another one of him." 

Silence befalls the room, Aki is sipping his beer while Himeno watches him with something in her eye. They had done this many times before; drinking at the same bar and spending hours talking about each other's lives. 

"So how's Denji doing?" Himeno asks with the same cheeky smile she wore before.

"He hadn't turned into the Chainsaw Devil in a while." 

"Oh, why not?" 

"I-I don't know, he stopped talking too, I think I should be more upfront with him. At least then he can explain to me why he was mumbling those things..." Aki looks outside and into the night sky, there are only a few stars but due to the clouds, the light from them is dimmed and foggy. 

"What things?" 

"I was up late last night and I went to use the bathroom, when I was walking back to my room I heard mumbling from Denji's room..." Aki then pulls out a pack of cigarettes and starts to take one out, "I looked in to see what's up, and when I did I saw Denji sweating, I thought he was sick or something, but then he started to talk in his sleep." After saying that Aki starts to light up a cigarette and starts to suck the end of it.

Himeno reaches over the table and grabs a cigarette from the pack, Aki lights it for her, "What was he saying?" 

Aki lets out a small chuckle, "Coffee, Makima, someone named Reze, Nayuta....And Pochita." 

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"Denji, which do you think has it the best, the town mouse or the country mouse?" Reze asks while looking out to the rain outside and dark clouds. They're still at the school, in an empty classroom. 

"Huh?" That was all the blonde said before turning his head towards the purple-haired girl next to him, he watched as she stared at the rain with a blush. And as if something came back into his memory, he starts to talk, "Oh yeah, I remember hearin' somethin' 'bout dis before." 

Reze turns her gaze at the blonde and smiles at him, "So, which one do you think has it better?" 

"Da country mouse lives in da country, even though they can't eat delicious foods, they can live in peace, without fear of dogs, cats, 'n people...Da's full of shit." Denji says with a chuckle. 

Denji could only remember that night due to his and Reze's talk about which mice had it better.

It's morning and Aki's apartment is quiet, a common thing but what wasn't was Denji making coffee. He put the grounds into the coffee machine and turned it on, within a few seconds the apartment smelt like coffee; After getting a cup of coffee and pouring a large amount of cream in it, Denji went to the balcony and seats on one of the chairs. The sun was peeking its light, but still, darkness covered the sky, but with each minute the night disappeared and light made its dominant presence. Denji frowned when the night sky was completely dark and he frowned when the morning light got too bright, but he smiled when the two came together to make a stunning purple and orange sky. 

Denji heard the balcony's door open, and then a tried Aki spoke, "Denji?" 

"Heya." 

The silence was the only thing on the balcony, Aki got a cup of coffee and sat next to Denji, who was already halfway done with his cup. 

"Is Powy waking up any time soon?" Denji asks while finishing up his cup. 

"Today is our day off, so she can sleep in." 

They were done talking or at least Denji thought so, but when he got up and moved towards the door, Aki started to talk again, "Denji." 

"Yeah?" 

"How are you holding up?" The question was sudden, so much so that it caught Denji off guard. But still, it didn't Denji even a second to say something.

"I'm fine Aki." Denji's tone was flat as if a robot was speaking for him, but Aki either looked over it or just ignored it.

"Okay," Aki says with a sigh and watches as Denji opens the door. "I-If..." Denji stops and turns to Aki again, this time he sees Aki staring at him, but it is tender and sorrowful, "If you need to talk about stuff, I'm always here to listen." 

"Thanks," Denji grunts softly before going into the apartment, he goes to the bathroom and shuts the door, he turns on the faucet but that barely covers his whines. 

Denji wishes that he could speed up time so he could deal with Reze and get her out of the way, but he couldn't so he does the next best thing, doing his job. That's why he's walking around with Kobeni, Beam wasn't with them because Makima needed him for something, and Denji didn't ask. 

"Damn," Denji mumbles to himself, "there's nothing to do 'round here." The blonde sighs and stops walking, he hears laughing and sounds of beeps and boops, he turns his head and sees the most beautiful thing in his life, "A-A-An arcade!" Denji's enthusiasm couldn't be masked. "Yo Kobs, let's hit up dis arcade." 

Kobeni stops, she's a few feet ahead of Denji, and turns around, "I-I don't Denji...W-we on the clock and should be doing o-o-our jobs." Denji could tell that she was trying to stand her ground, and he respected that, but...

"I'm soooo fuckin' bord Kobs, I would like to kill sum devils too n' protect da people n' shit, but there ain't no devils out in our patrol." Denji didn't want to back down and spend his time walking around the same place until his shaft was over. 

"Y-you don't know if there's a devil around or not! There could be a devil on our patrol who is attacking someone right now, and you just wanna play games in an arcade?!" Kobeni wasn't backing down either, she was standing her ground. 

"Kobs...I saw you looking first." Denji didn't raise his voice, but it still had a dominating tone in it, which reminded Kobeni of Makima a little. 

"W-What are you talking about?" Kobeni started to sweat. 

Denji sighs and pinchs the bridge of his nose, "We walked our patrol like ten times, n' each time we pass dis arcade you look slightly over towards it. I know you wanna play sum games too." And that was the nail in the coffin...Kobeni sighs and nods her head. 

"Okay fine, we can take a break from our patrol, but for thirty minutes only." Kobeni still tried to have some control, but Denji quickly made it clear what he wanted.

"Nah, we still got three hours left in our shaft...So an hour at less." 

Kobeni just sighs, "O-okay." 

Denji felt slightly bad for Kobeni, so he pats her back, "Cmon, it's gonna be fun, plus I'm paying." And as if he said a magic word, Kobeni's eyes light up. 

"So, how's being buddy up with Chainsaw Man?" Makima asks, her voice is cold yet a small hit of curiosity is in it. Beam is kneeling in front of the woman, his carefree energy is gone, and submission replaces it. Makima's office seems colder and darker than usual, the blend and unremarkable walls have now turned almost antagonistic.

"IT'S AN HONOR, MASTER DENJI HAS-" Beam was quickly cut off by a slap in the face. 

Makima looks down at the shark fiend with anger, "Don't use that name...I give Chainsaw Man you as a buddy, so you'll use his real name...Kobeni is for Denji..." 

Beam, knowing his mistake, quickly speaks up again, "MY BAD MISS MAKIMA. IT'S AN HONOR TO BE WORKING WITH LORD CHAINSAW...ALTHOUGH I HAVE YET TO SEE HIS TRUE FORM." That caught Makima's attention. 

"What do you mean, he hasn't turned into chainsaw man at all?" Makima's voice was quiet and her question carried anger in it. The shark fiend nods his head. "How...strange...Well, I'll make sure to fix the problem soon enough. Thank you for the information Beam, you can go now." And with that, the shark fiend sinks into the floor and swims away. 

"Denji...Oh, Denji...I think I figured out why Chainsaw Man picked you." Makima smiles, "You are chaotic by nature, no allice nor judgment when killing, just seeing you kill reminds me of him...Only if you didn't talk, or act so...Human...Don't worry, I'll turn you into him or simply take him away from you...Only time will tell."  A beam of light broke through the grey curtains, now shining behind Makima. 

Denji is out of breath, he looks up and sees Kobeni still dancing, he doesn't bother looking up to see the scores--he already knows that he lost--and with a few more moves, the song ends. The blonde goes up and pats Kobeni on the back, "Good job Kobs." 

Kobeni smiles, her face sweaty and burning, "Thanks f-f-for paying." Her voice sounds tired and weak, but Denji hears a small chuckle from her. Checking the time, he found out that they were in the arcade for an hour and a half. 

"Well, wanna get some food?" Denji asks with a smile. Kobeni nods her head. 

"I'll pay for your food." She says firmly yet caringly. 

Denji is about to reject, but then he remembers how much he spent at the arcade, "'Kay Kobs, but I won't hold back from ordering a bunch of stuff." He said with a laugh. 

"S-So where do you wanna go?" Kobeni asks, Denji shrugs his shoulders. 

"We can get sum ice cream if you wanna." 

Kobeni gave the idea some thought, "O-okay, the next ice cream stand, we'll get some."  Denji just kept smiling, but what Kobeni didn't expect was the blonde wrapping his arm around her shoulder and behind her neck. She didn't find it uncomfortable; in fact, she was surprised by how soothing Denji's arm was, it made her feel safe. 

It was only ten minutes into their patrol and they already found an ice cream stand, Denji moved his arm off of Kobeni, much to her dismay. The blonde went up and ordered, "I would like umm...Minit Choclet with one of them waffle cones!" The worker smiles and hands Denji his order. 

Kobeni is up next, she looks at the worker-a man who has thin hair, is in his forties, and his uniform is baggy-- and then she gives her order, "CanIhavecookiesandcreamplease." The worker looks at her, confused and worried. 

"Miss, can you repeat that again?" 

"Great, I just embarrassing myself in front of Denji again...Maybe I can skip getting ice cream.." While Kobeni was in deep thought, a voice came up. 

"She asked for cookies n' cream dude...Even a dumbass like me could even understand her." Denji sounded ticked off, "Are ya fuckin' deaf old man?" 

The worker, who seemed slightly scared, shakes his head, "No sir, s-she just said her order too fast." 

Denji didn't seem pleased with his answer but he just sighed. The worker hurried up and got Kobeni her ice cream, he even said it was on the house. 

The blonde was enjoying his ice cream, while Kobeni stared at hers. "Did he just rob that worker? No, he didn't, the worker said it was on the house...But that was due to him being scared to death of Denji." After the blonde finishes his cone, he looks at Kobeni and sees her looking down, "What's wrong Kobs?" His voice gently brought some pace to Kobeni's raging mind. 

"I-I just feel bad for that worker Denji, that wasn't right...What you did wasn't right." Kobeni is on the edge of breaking down into a crying mess. Denji could see it coming from a mile away, so he did something about it, he got in front of Kobeni, and grabbed her chin, he gently moved her face to look at him. 

"I don't care if that wasn't right, and I don't give a damn if the worker's reason was a real one...I hate to see you having to repeat yourself, even though you say what you want." Denji's words are caring, even warm, and for some reason, Kobeni wanted to lean in and- The boy steps back. "I-I'm sorry." Denji apologizes.

Kobeni couldn't explain it, but when Denji stepped back, her heart sank and his apology didn't help that feeling, so she did something bold, that even surprised her; she got up and hugged Denji. "Don't apologize you did what you thought was good, so thank you Denji...Thank you for always trying to help me smile..." And then she does something even more bold, she gets on her toes and leans in...

Denji felt something on his right cheek, it was wet and warm...And then he sees Kobeni coming down from his face. His brain couldn't think of any words, so he stood there shocked and yet oddly happy. 

It's been a week since the kiss, and yet Denji still smiles warmly at the memory...But now isn't the time for smiling and feeling good, right he's standing in front of Reze, and they're on top of a hill that overlooks the festival. "My boss says this is the best spot to watch fireworks from this festival." The girl explained with a smile, but Denji didn't smile back. 

The moon's light shines down, casting a shadow on half of Denji's face, "Yeah, dis is a good spot...After the fireworks, we can get some grub from one of those stands." Denji's voice didn't carry the same excitement with it as it usually did...But Reze didn't point it out. 

"Yeah, that's a good idea Denji!" 

The blond hums and smiles at the girl...It was peaceful, no one was around and the only sound heard was crickets...And then Reze starts to talk, "So Denji, you work for public safety right?" Denji nods his head, "And you want that?" 

"I-I don't know, killin' devils is da only thing dat I did for most my life...To be honest, I don't really mind risking my life every day, as long as I get food, a place to sleep, and a bed, then I'm happy with my life." Denji explains calmly. 

"But you're sixteen! You should be going to school and living a normal life!" Reze shouts. Denji knew it was all an act, but something about her acting like she had lived a normal life and could judge what's normal and not...That bothers him for some reason, so he snaps back. 

"And you know how to live a normal life?!" His words are loud and aimed to hurt, Reze was taken aback by Denji's outburst. After a few seconds, Denji quickly calm down and realize what he had done, "Shit..." He mumbles under his breath.

"Denji," Reze's words are cold, "I was going to ask if you wanted to run away together, but it seems like you finger me out...At least let me have this." She said while grabbing Denji's tie and pulling him down to her level and leaning in...Her lips made contact, but she opened her eyes...She saw Denji's hand between their lips. 

"Sorry, but I'm savin' myself for someone!" 

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So this isn't a chapter, and I'm super sorry for getting any of all of you's hopes high. But I'm going to take a break from this fic, there's nothing wrong but I feel like I've stopped enjoying Chainsaw Man fics, and I feel kinda burnt out with it...And I'm kinda wanna write some fics for underground stuff, and one of the first ones is going be an Ayashimon fic. (If you haven't read Ayashimon, you should cuz it's just a fun read but sadly it got canceled on its 25th chapter.) 

Don't worry, this fic ain't gonna be left behind, I'll return to it once I get done with a few other stuff.  

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I'm back, wonderful people, it's been like two years since I wrote a fic. This fic in all likelihood dead, but I somehow just felt like I needed to finish it and a bunch of other backlog ones. Truth be told I just got bored of writting any fics, I tried with other stuff; hell, I even started to write a My Name Is Earl fic, but no joy came out, and I understand that sometimes that's how it be. So I just took a very long break to do other stuff, like getting good at drawing, relationship stuff. Truth be told I was embarrassed by my writing, but I still love the idea of the fics I got posted here. So I'm just gonna focus on getting the chapter that's been left out for two years posted. I wanna let you guys know that it's gonna be different from the other chapters, if you all prefer i,t then let me know, and if not, then also let me know. But yea, most of my old fans might have moved on and started to read other fics or focus on other stuff, but I wanna thank them for reading this lil fic. 

Have an amazing day, people, and I'm glad to be back here.